We are operating at least 760 programs through 39 different agencies. They are not all in the Department of Education. They are in 39 different, distinct agencies, and they spend $120 billion per year.

When this President gets done, if he gets this approved, he will be building our schools, he will be teaching our teachers, certifying our teachers, putting in the technology, feeding them lunch, feeding them breakfast.

I am encouraged by the work my colleague has done and that he has completed on working toward, not a balanced budget but actually working toward a surplus budget as soon as possible, and actually developing a plan to pay off the national…

Every day when we cross the street, we come over a street that is called Independence Avenue. Me and my staff, we have talked about it, we kind of think that maybe we could rename the street into Dependence Avenue because that street is…

Teaching them about sex education, giving them national tests, doing after-school programs, maybe even midnight basketball and a couple of other things. Other than that, it is your local school. Now, the President has moved away from this…

We estimate that for the dollar that goes for K through 12, about 65 cents gets to the children, gets to the classroom. Thirty-five cents gets eaten up in the bureaucracy and the paperwork. Those are not impressive numbers. We can do…

Mr. Speaker, I want to continue a series now that I have been doing for my colleagues that outlines a project which we call lessons in education. This is the fifth in a series. This is the fifth lesson, and it is about new spending and…

And I think, you know, as we really take a look at how we help young people for those that select and believe that they want to go to higher education, I think that article points out that before we throw a lot more money and programs at…

The system that I think we are looking forward to is developing and bringing back in balance a role for Government, highlighting the role that individuals can play, highlighting the role that private enterprise can play and highlighting…

Our choice is between new or expanded government programs or new or expanded nonprofit faith-based organizations. It is not a dream, what the gentleman was talking about: Corporations and individuals and churches and nonprofits being…

The choice is between government spending versus family savings. A very clear choice. We take a friend with us almost wherever we go just to talk about this, and the choice is sending money to a Washington bureaucrat or leaving it with a…

over the last few months we have been engaged in a process which we call Education at a Crossroads, visiting different parts of the country, visiting different school districts within my congressional district, getting feedback on the…

I have moved away from the term ``balanced budget''. When you are talking about $1.6 trillion, $1.5, we will never get it into balance. In reality, we will either be at deficit or we will be at surplus. And I think it is important for us…

I have some very qualified staff people who have the opportunity to read these. But this Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, you go to the section that is called Education, and this is all in fine print, and you read this, and you…

We are going to be coming to your States. What we are doing is we are working on a project which we call Education at a Crossroads: What's Working and What's Wasted. We have evidence that there are problems in education around the country…

The key to this is, it is not that these rules or regulations are good or bad, I think they go too far. This is taxpayer dollars. This is why we have too many families in America today that are two-wage-earner families as a requirement…

The debate will be if we are only getting 65 cents of the dollar to the child, are we going to increase spending to $1.20 to get up to 70 cents or 75 cents to the child, or are we going to take a look at that 30 to 35 cents and say that is…

We need to prepare this country, which means I think that we have to carry forward on our vision toward getting a surplus budget and a government that can be funded by a one-wage-earner family, that a two-wage-earner family is an option…

Going back to the Tale of Two Visions, we all know how complex our Tax Code is. It is so complex that the IRS has spent in the neighborhood of $8 billion trying to design and automate and computerize the system. They now acknowledge that…

That is right. I think the Republican vision, I think Congress' vision for where we need to go with the budget is more than a surplus budget. For all we know the Soviet Union ran surplus budgets. I do not know what their budget was, but…

Well, this is exactly what we are talking about. I think our vision of education, the vision that we see, and you know the exciting thing about going around the country and in some cases going to some of the most troubled areas and some of…

tonight I want to share with my colleagues a project that we have been working on for a number of months. We call it the Case for Saving America's Families. In this project, we are attempting to build a case for government that does only…

I would just like to take a look at what the President is proposing in the area of education. We all recognize that much work needs to be done in education. We are currently engaged in a process which we call Education at a Crossroads…

But it is time to reintroduce the bill that allows public citizens, it allows the citizens of this country to hold their elected officials accountable for the promises and the commitments that they make during an election. Over the last…

I was amazed again yesterday when I read Secretary Rubin's statement in Congress Daily, implying that tax cuts would unduly harm our economy. Think about it: What Secretary Rubin really thinks is that Washington bureaucrats know better how…