Political Quotes

“I know if he gets $31 million, I know where he is taking it out of. He is taking it out of inner city schools like I represent. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) represents a very suburban district. If that is the intent of this bill, and that may very well be happening, then that is a great reason to oppose it. Let me talk a little bit about the title of the this bill, the truth in taxation is truth in Dollars to the Classroom. The truth in the labeling in this bill is something we should have, because if it actually sends dollars to the classroom, how come the report I see from my folks in Texas show that we are going to lose $17 million, 9.3 percent of the programs that are allocated under this to the Dollars in the Classroom? So I think maybe the numbers are incorrect. This is just a continuation, Madam Chairman, of what I have seen in the last 4 years. In 1995, we saw an effort to eliminate the Department of Education, attack on school lunches, the effort just last week to have Federal Government tell local States what to do with bilingual education even with State money and eliminate safe and drug-free schools. So what we are seeing now is under a false labeling, Dollars to the Classroom.”