Joe Cunningham: “I heard smoke and mirrors. Let me tell you what smoke and mirrors, or a difference of opinion, at least, is in this…”

“I heard smoke and mirrors. Let me tell you what smoke and mirrors, or a difference of opinion, at least, is in this impact aid that the President cut all of part B out of. We have restored. As a matter of fact, the bipartisan impact, and there is support on both sides of the aisle for impact aid, we have increased it $2 million more than even requested in the bipartisan. Ninety percent of the impact aid funding, it is in there. Let me tell you where, yes, we did cut in education. We cut your Federal bureaucracy once again. Ask the head of your own budget agreement, and party, about the President's direct lending program. We capped it at 10 percent. That saves $1 billion just in administrative fees, $1 billion, and GAO says we do not even know what it is going to cost to collect it, about $3 to $5 billion, we capped it at 10 percent, took those savings, we increased student loans by 50 percent. We increased Pell grants the highest level ever. Stafford loans, idea, which is for special education, is level funded. When you say we are cutting education, yes, we are cutting your bureaucracy. I go back to the fact when you take a look at title I, look at the studies that the Department of Education has made on title I. We reduced the spending there. Why? Because it has not been effective, and we are spending $1 billion. The same study by the Department of Education, not Republicans, said that Head Start is mismanaged. There are 760 programs in education.…”