James P. Greenwood: “I think it is constructive that earlier this afternoon the Pennsylvania delegation met with Governor Ridge, a former…”

“I think it is constructive that earlier this afternoon the Pennsylvania delegation met with Governor Ridge, a former member here. The first question that our Governor asked is, When are you going to move this Ed-Flex bill? We absolutely have to have it. This is what he said was the primary reason, that 40 percent of the bureaucrats working in the State Department of Education are employed filling out Federal forms, only to qualify them for 7 percent of their total educational package. So the notion that the Castle amendment, joined in with the Ed-Flex bill, will give the Governor of Pennsylvania the opportunity to put some of those 40 percent of the educational bureaucrats to work doing something productive is reason enough for both the Castle amendment and the bill.”