Pete Sessions

I guess the point is, these are supposedly our friends who triple the price we have to pay for oil. We have to pay three times as much money to foreign sources, and we get no more oil than we did the day before they drove it up?

I know there are people who have become emotionally committed to this ANWR issue. I hope people will rethink it. As the Senator from Alaska has explained repeatedly, we have such a small area that needs to be produced, and wells are so…

If they can do that, if they are friends, if we were to have some turnover in government or a war were to break out that could deny some of this, we could see prices even higher than that on the world market?

Of course, the Senator is not overlooking conservation. That is another way to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

Instead of having workers in Saudi Arabia paying taxes to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or Iran, they would be paying taxes to the U.S. Government.

But if we were to open ANWR, the Federal Government, just from the sale of the leases, would receive $1.6 billion?

I thank Senator Specter for his leadership and courtesy in allowing me to present this amendment which I believe is exceedingly important to health care in America. It is a problem with which we simply have to deal. It affects hospitals…

But it would alter current law. Under current law, the plan has been for Prison Industries to produce products for sale to the Federal Government thereby improving prison conditions and receiving some financial benefit to the prison.

I also express my appreciation for all who have been involved in this bill. I say to Senator Kennedy, a number of people on this side of the aisle have expressed their appreciation for your leadership. You are a great advocate, but also…

The school gets to protect the students until it is complete, no later than 10 days. I think the school system ought to be given some deference. The principals and the teachers love children. They care about their school. They want to do…

I want him to understand clearly that under the example cited about a child who was frustrated because they could not hear the television-- and some of those things happen--under this amendment I have presented, that child could not be…

Our amendment further says: (A) Review of manifestation determination.--If the parents or the local educational agency disagree with a manifestation determination under subsection (n)(2), the parents or the agency may request a review of…

The Senator said mine eliminated a due process hearing. I would like for him to say where it does that.

I would not want the due process hearing to be eliminated. I don't intend to do that in the legislation. If there is any language there that does that, I will be glad to discuss it with the Senator. I do not believe it does.

This provision would say that if the school system believes an alternative school could help and if the parent agrees, if they both agree, they could take their daily allowance for funding for that student and allow the parent to apply to…

I think most schools are doing a pretty good job. As the Senator knows, the Federal Government committed to pay 40 percent of IDEA costs and never paid much more than 10 percent or 15 percent of that. This bill would fully fund that 40…

If their discipline or behavioral problem is not related to their misbehavior, then this language will say they would be treated like any other child who misbehaves in school, subject to discipline, suspension, or other disciplinary action…

I say it this way: Most school systems are required under Federal law to provide educational services. If they have special needs, they have to provide them. Many children have an individual, one single individual who goes with that single…

That is correct. It could not exceed the average daily expenditure cost of the child and it could be only used for the education of the child.

My amendment does that. It says if the discipline problem is a product or related to their disability then the child may not be denied educational services.

I will just wrap up and say the Secretary of Education, Dr. Paige, tried it in Houston, a huge school system--I ask for 1 minute to wrap up--favors this idea.

I support Ted Olson's nomination to be the next Solicitor General. Certain charges were made, but they have been investigated and, in my view, have been found wholly without merit. The charges were raised in a newspaper article in the…

I would like to see the Rand study. I would just say this, that Michigan Professor Linda Lim has done comparative studies of the United States and Asian schools and found that class sizes are 50-plus in places such as Taiwan and they have…

This is a study by Eric Hanushek, a professor at the University of Rochester who published his writings, and who I think is well known in the field and referred to by experts.

This tax cut that you proposed and the analysis that has been made of it, does it have dynamic scoring? Does it provide any projected boost in the economy by virtue of the tax cut?