Political Quotes

“I was going to give an example of doing better, and one example of this administration thinking that they can do better. Under the National Performance Review process, which was designed to streamline government, and maybe this was the example the gentleman was thinking of using, but the Federal Education Department does not educate kids, what it does is it hands out money. And they hand out money based on school districts applying and then the Department of Education giving out grants. Under Vice President Gore's National Performance Review, they did do better. They took a look at how this process works, the discretionary grant process, and they found out that if a school district or an educational entity applied for a grant, it took 26 weeks to get processed and it took 487 separate steps from start to finish. So if a school district is all excited, or is really concerned because they have identified this issue or problem that they need to deal with, it was kind of like, hey, the Federal Government has this program out here, let us apply for it. Twenty-six weeks later and 487 steps later they might have gotten their answer and they might have gotten a check. Well, they improved that. It now only takes 20 weeks and 216 steps.”