Haley Stevens: “this pending Lieberman-Coats amendment is a good one. We see no reason to take further time on it because the House bill…”

“this pending Lieberman-Coats amendment is a good one. We see no reason to take further time on it because the House bill does have the $75 million for charter schools. The effect of this amendment would be to increase it to that amount. It is the intention of the chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Specter, to notify the House that in conference we will recede to the House on this item. I appreciate the indulgence of the two Senators, Senator Lieberman and Coats, and ask under the circumstances that they accept our word that will be the amount of money provided for charter schools under this bill when it comes out of conference.”