Political Quotes

“We passed a bill here a couple of years ago that entitled dollars to the classroom because we did a survey of the Education Department. We found that the Education Department and the other Federal agencies had over 760 different specific education programs, not all of them obviously in the Department of Education, not all of them obviously targeted to K through 12 education; but we do not have that many different kinds of education systems that you said, well, it makes sense to have 760 different education programs. Then what we started doing is we started taking a look at how those dollars flow. We appropriate money into one of these programs, so we send it to a K through 12 school with a list of rules and regulations, or we send it to the State. The State then has to administer it and send it down to a local school district, and again, it gets to a local classroom, perhaps with some rules and restrictions on it. They then have to report back to the State, and the State has to report back to Washington and say we spent the money exactly the way that you told us to and within the restrictions of the program. Of course, we know that the folks at the local level cheat, so we then send in our auditors.…”