I thank the gentleman for adding that clarity. He is right, it was passed by Democratic votes, by one vote, I think, in both the House and Senate. But it is a much different vision than what we have now. We are in double digits with the…

I would love to. Here we go again, I am sure someone is thinking this. Last week we did the debate on the National Endowment for the Arts. We on our side of the aisle had a very good proposal to keep the money in the arts but to attack the…

No. We have a bureaucracy here in Washington, it may not be that big, it is less than 5,000 people. But only again in Washington is a bureaucracy with 5,000 people a small bureaucracy. We met with the governor of Wisconsin, Tommy Thompson…

And it has been led by Tommy Thompson. We talked about this issue last year; and we said, just let the governor and just let the State legislature in Wisconsin do what they feel needs to be done and what is going to work in Wisconsin…

I just wanted to reflect on the numbers that the gentleman has been laying in front of us tonight. Number one, the significant progress that we have made over the last 3 years, where there is talk about getting to a surplus budget much…

the debate that we just concluded was about the Corporation for National Service. It was about the Tiahrt amendment. As the chairman for the oversight subcommittee, I just want to share with my colleagues some of the information that the…

As chairman of the oversight committee that has responsibility for the National Endowment for the Arts, we have done oversight work, and the reason I am supporting my colleague's amendment today is because I believe it addresses the worst…

I think it is interesting. I have two of my colleagues who came here in January 1993, the three of us came here. What we were faced with was raising taxes, growing rapidly the size of government, nationalizing health care, no concern about…

Just been fascinated listening. I think there are a number of things that I would like to build off that some of you have talked about. No. 1, I think we want to personalize this. What does it actually mean to the average family? You are…

This budget does not do everything that we would like it to do, but it is an important next step in the process. It moves us forward. It moves us towards fiscal responsibility and it does so in a very positive framework. It keeps us moving…

So with the process the gentleman from North Carolina has outlined, fraudulent data coming in is what can lead to excessive costs for further Federal projects.

The report was sent in, so on the report they outlined the wage scales that are paid or were paid to these workers on this project and for any Federal project or any project that had Federal dollars on it, these were going to be the wages…

I am not sure that we are even talking about the lowest possible cost. I think everybody here is willing to take a look. If we were getting exemplary results, we would not go through a cost reduction effort, and that is not the focus here…

It is kind of interesting what the woman has outlined. It is that would make the people in this building feel very uncomfortable because they do not believe that competitive bidding actually works in the construction industry. Even though…

The poorest districts in the country will end up paying a premium for all of their construction costs and will actually end up, may end up, getting less bang for their dollar than if they had never gotten involved with the Federal…

If we put in the prevailing wage provision without the people here in Washington determining the wages, we will lose, I say to the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Ballenger], anywhere from 10 to 20 percent, maybe more of the purchasing…

Does the gentleman mean 39 agencies dealing with education is too many in Washington?

I thank my colleagues for participating tonight. We are going to continue this dialogue on education. It is a very important one. We are going to continue hearings. This President in many cases has the same vision of quality education for…

What they told us is, do not cut remedial education. You are sitting there and you are thinking, this is higher ed, what are we teaching remedial education at higher ed for? And so we asked and we said, what are you teaching? They said…

tonight I am joined by a number of my colleagues to talk about what my other colleagues were talking about in the previous hour, and that is education. And rather than going through a long introduction, I want to start right off with a…

the gentlewoman actually believes school reform can happen at the local and the State level better than at the Federal level.

I think what many of us have seen as we have met with school administrators and around in our districts, we constantly hear that these buildings and these people here in Washington, all with good intentions but who control about 7 percent…

is that 21 weeks before they may ever get an answer from the Education Department as to whether they are going to receive a grant?

the gentleman has taken kind of a revolutionary approach. He is focusing getting dollars to the classroom, getting them to the kids, getting them to the teachers, to the local administration where they can actually make an impact. The…

I find it interesting. It has been one of the most exciting projects I have worked on because we have been able to go around the country. We have been in California, we have been in Arizona, we were in Georgia, we are going to New York, we…