The Department of Education, September 1999, prints 3.5 million financial aid forms. One problem, they printed them incorrectly. It cost the American taxpayer $720,000. There is one that we call ``dead and loving it.'' The Department of…

I wanted to build off the comments that our friend from South Dakota made in talking about the amount of money that comes to Washington and how Washington responds. Obviously, the Congress appropriates this money to the executive branch…

I mean, when we think about this process and we got involved in this issue, when the Department of Education failed its 1998 audit, which means the auditors came in and said the way that the numbers are reported in their financial…

here is the quote out of the Ernst and Young report on internal control fiscal year 1999 audit of the Department of Education: ``During testing of grant expenditures for the Impact Aid grant program,'' which is the program that affected…

Absolutely, and maybe knowing it and maybe not knowing it. Student financial programs are annually cited. And while we are talking about real money, this is now talking 70 to 80 billion dollars of loan portfolios that they manage. The…

Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less, Report of the National Performance Review. We can speak from experience that the redesign or the reinvention of the Education Department has been a failure. Al Gore dropped the ball…

I think we ought to take a little bit of time talking about where we are with kids. We know our kids are not tested enough, but we also have proposals to fix these problems. We have a series of objectives that say here is what we would…

when we take a look at it again, when we see the waste fraud and abuse, I mean, it is really scary. But then it also gets to be scary when we take a look at some of the places where we consciously make the decision to spend the money. My…

Well, I just wanted to mention that not only did they buy cars, they bought a Lincoln Navigator, a Cadillac Escalante, they bought a house, and they were going to try to actually buy a Corvette. So it is interesting. I was going to say we…

What we see here in front of us is one that is a Washington-based plan versus one that says we are going to take care of business here in Washington, which is paying down the debt. But other than that, we are going to give the money back…

The fastest growing program on our college campuses today is remedial education. It means that our young people who are graduating from high school are entering college without the basic skills necessary to complete the work in their…

the chart back up that talks about the 6 cents in new spending that Governor Bush is talking about versus the 45 cents that the Vice President is talking about. The one thing that I think we have recognized, and the gentleman from Colorado…

I think we know how and why we lose 45 to 60 cents when we create a program here in Washington. There have been hundreds since we have been here. They were here when we got here, but there are hundreds of programs. We have to tell a local…

I think this really builds off of the discussion that our colleague from Wisconsin was just leading in that when we take a look at the Vice President's plans to significantly increase spending, before we significantly increase spending…

3.5 million forms containing errors, incorrect line references to the IRS tax form were printed, 100,000 of them were distributed, had to be recalled, the other ones all had to be destroyed. A cost of $720,000. Dead and Loving It. The…

The Education Department placed a half billion dollars in the wrong Treasury account, then disbursed the money without leaving an auditable paper trail. They also have something in the Department of Education, which I think in the private…

We actually had testimony from the accounting and the investment field. We asked them if they knew of any $1.8 trillion or even a $1 billion company publicly held in the last year, the last 2 years that had failed their audit to the extent…

I am not sure they are all Cabinet, but we have nine significant agencies that cannot receive a clean audit.

Over the last 3 years, many on the Committee on Education and the Workforce have had the opportunity to travel around the country... We have learned that parental involvement, safe classrooms, basic academics, and focusing dollars into the…

In 1998 and 1999, the Department of Education failed its financial audit. That means that the independent auditors who came in and took a look at the financial records of the Department of Education indicated that the way the numbers were…

You get what you measure. If the Department of Education is now measuring relationships, resilience, and readiness, that is probably what we will get, at least from the programs and the emphasis, the programs that the Education Department…

Who for 8 years has been in charge now. I think he is the longest serving member of the President's cabinet and has been there since day 1 almost and in 3 weeks will deliver the third set of unauditable books, or a failed audit, to the…

I chair a subcommittee dealing with the oversight issues dealing with the Education and Labor Departments. We are going to kind of take our colleagues through what we have found in our investigations, and some of the things are quite…

I think what we are also saying is that by empowering parents, that if in the local community you have got a school superintendent or a school that says, our model and our priorities, we are going to match what the Department of Education…

if we build off of how education is being reinvented around the country, recently my colleague and I were in Minnesota where they are talking about a plan that really reinvents some of their spending and focuses it around parents by giving…