Arlen Specter: “If I may respond, my preference would be to move for the poor schools first. In constructing this bill, there were many…”

“If I may respond, my preference would be to move for the poor schools first. In constructing this bill, there were many objections as to how the money was going to be allocated. The only way we could work through the complications was to put it in title VI. That was not my first choice, nor are the programs my first choice. Working through a great many considerations, we ended up in title VI leaving the options to school districts, if they choose not to have construction, or if they choose not to have reduction in class size. That is an accommodation to very many disparate views.”