Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of talk on this floor about how this program does not cost any money. I would just like to read out of the committee report here, page 11, where it has got the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate. ``For 1997 through 2001, the net budgetary impact of title I is the increased cost by $120 million a year over current law.'' That is just in black and white.
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