Judd Gregg: “The record on special education is even more dramatic. Where the Clinton administration essentially flatlined special…”

“The record on special education is even more dramatic. Where the Clinton administration essentially flatlined special education for 8 years, this administration has increased it, by historic levels, over a billion dollars a year every year--dramatic increases for special education. We will get into that. We will get into the issue of the Pell grants, where the numbers are equally stark, where this administration has made huge commitments in comparison to the time when the responsibilities for funding education actually fell into the hands of our colleagues across the aisle. But what we have today, unfortunately, is an attempt to use the lack of responsibility to have to produce a budget to throw out numbers which are irresponsible and claim that they are responsible. The last budget the Democrats produced on the issue of education was a blank. That is what they brought to the floor on the issue of education last year, whereas the President of the United States stepped up to the plate and increased title I funding by $3.9 billion in 3 years. That is real commitment to the kids of America.”