John Boehner: “I do not blame them for standing up on the floor here defending the program, trying to keep that money coming into their…”

“I do not blame them for standing up on the floor here defending the program, trying to keep that money coming into their districts. We are all familiar with pork in Congress. We all think it all happens in the appropriations bills, but it does not. This is nothing more than educational pork that ends up in 30 school districts in America. When we are trying to focus some attention on how to help disadvantaged children in title I, this is the last thing that we ought to be doing--taking out an authorization for $10 million in order to benefit just 30 school districts in America. That is my problem. It is not the program in general.”