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On the recordSeptember 16, 1998
We said, this is the Executive Branch. We kind of surveyed their documents and tried to answer the question. How many education programs are there? The answer came back, and a lot of study, and it is 740, 760. We finally said, if you take it all, and this is not all K through 12, it is all kinds of different education programs, and this one might be in there, and if it is, I am sorry we did not catch it and identify it before the gentleman did, but it is like 760 programs. We thought hallelujah. Now we know why there is an education department, to coordinate 760 programs. We then took a look at it and said wrong; 760 programs, 39 different agencies. We found things like, we, the people in the gentleman's district, the people in my district pay for closed captioning, think about this, closed captioning of Bay Watch, of the Ricki Lake Show. American taxpayers are paying for closed captioning of Bay Watch. It is kind of like take a look at where we are spending our dollars.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the oversight of education programs and government spending.

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