John Boehner: “If this was such an important program, why would not President Clinton have proposed in his recent budget that this…”

“If this was such an important program, why would not President Clinton have proposed in his recent budget that this program continue? And why would he, when he proposed the reauthorization of the elementary and secondary and vocational education, why would he not then have proposed that this program continue? The fact is that he did not propose in either his budget or in his reauthorization bill that this program continue.”