Frank Pallone: “tonight when President Clinton gives his State of the Union Address he is going to discuss his plan to prepare our…”

“tonight when President Clinton gives his State of the Union Address he is going to discuss his plan to prepare our country and our children for the 21st century, and the heart of this plan addresses an issue that I think is very much on the minds of most Americans and that is education. The President's plan to strengthen our education system contains some of the very ideas that congressional Democrats developed last year as part of our families first agenda. As many Americans learned last year, the family first agenda is a comprehensive plan designed to improve the lives of the average American family, the mother and father who basically go out and work every day to provide for and improve the lives of their children. At the center of the President's and also last year's congressional Democrats' education plan are two targeted tax breaks, a $1,500 HOPE scholarship and a $10,000 tax deduction for tuition and training.”