Judd Gregg: “If we go to title I, we will see in the last year the Presidency and the Congress were controlled by the Democratic…”

“If we go to title I, we will see in the last year the Presidency and the Congress were controlled by the Democratic Party, there was $6.7 billion spent on title I. When the Republicans took over the Congress, by the way, that started to move up. In the years since President Bush has come into office, that number has jumped dramatically, so we are now up to $13.3 billion being spent on title I. The same is true of IDEA, which is a more startling number because the Clinton administration never proposed increases in IDEA until the last year and they were the result of a Republican Congress forcing those increases into the Clinton administration. Again, the IDEA numbers went down during the first years of the Clinton administration and started to go back up when the Republicans took control of the Congress. I was very involved when we demanded $1 billion a year. This President has proposed more increases in the first 3 years in IDEA funding--$1 billion each year onto each prior year--than the Clinton administration proposed in their entire 8 years in office. This is an example of that during the Clinton administration. IDEA funding was increased by $1.4 billion over their 8 years. In three years in office, President Bush has increased that money by $3.7 billion.”