Lynn N. Rivers: “I will take just a brief amount of time to point out that in the committee meeting I did put forward a proposal to do…”

“I will take just a brief amount of time to point out that in the committee meeting I did put forward a proposal to do what several of the Republicans on the committee as well as other members of the party have suggested, which is to send back 40 percent of all special education dollars to the States, to local school districts. Made a very strong case for that. The majority declined to do that, and instead substituted for my motion a motion to make it a sense of the Congress. So the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), along with others on the committee who were given an opportunity to make a very clear and concrete statement to send dollars back to schools, declined to do so.”