Joe Cunningham: “As a subcommittee chairman on education, I think there is a difference on what is really good. We increased student…”

“As a subcommittee chairman on education, I think there is a difference on what is really good. We increased student loans by 50 percent. We increased Pell grants to the highest level ever. But what we did not protect is your precious bureaucracy that only allows 23 cents on a dollar to get down into the classroom because of that bureaucracy. We eliminated the President's direct student loan program, that, according to GAO, cost a billion dollars more must to administer, and those fees are not even calculated on what it cost to receive those monies. You want the power here. We have eliminated the bureaucracy and the power. Goals 2000, you say, 'Well, look, you cut Goals 2000.' On a Federal level where you have Federal control instead of the State, yes, we did. Goals 2000, there are 45 instances that say State will, and you have got to have groups and members in different groups that put together the requirements. It is only voluntary if you do not want the money. But yet we send the money directly back to the State, and if a State wants to do Goals 2000, they can.”