Joe Cunningham: “I would like to just re-edify that this bill increases education, if we include Head Start, $2 billion. There is no one…”

“I would like to just re-edify that this bill increases education, if we include Head Start, $2 billion. There is no one wanting to take education away from kids. It increases it $2 billion over last year if we include Head Start. If we take a look, it increases special education $500 million, not cut, but $500 million. Impact aid, which the President zeroed out, is increased under this bill, which is very important to Native Americans and also to the military. Plus, the Ed Flex bill that we passed last year with bipartisan support gives the schools the ability to use the dollars as they see fit, not as Washington rules down the mandates which ties up the schools. That is one of the reasons the charter school movement that we pushed for years is so important. So we have not cut education, Mr. Chairman.”