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Pete Hoekstra: “Yes, only $3 billion out of, you know, the $40 to $50 billion that the Education Department spends every year, but, you…”

On the recordJune 23, 1998
Yes, only $3 billion out of, you know, the $40 to $50 billion that the Education Department spends every year, but, you know, we are starting, and we are going to take it and we are going to put it into opportunity grants, which says we are going to get the money to a child and we are not going to give it to a bureaucrat.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing funding allocation for education during a House floor debate.

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