Pete Domenici: “This will use $31 billion of the surplus. It will eat it up with a brand new entitlement, and it will take jurisdiction…”

“This will use $31 billion of the surplus. It will eat it up with a brand new entitlement, and it will take jurisdiction away from the appropriators in the normal course of allocating what America's Government ought to be doing. I repeat, the sense-of-the-Senate amendment establishes this as the highest priority, but we should not be setting a $31 billion entitlement program in motion today for a piece of education. Because we did not do our job on this, we should not make an entitlement to make up for our deficiency in not funding it properly.”