David Obey: “This year the committee has done the same thing for the following school year, which means the school districts will get…”

“This year the committee has done the same thing for the following school year, which means the school districts will get one check in July and another in October. We in this amendment simply propose to do the same thing. We propose to increase the portion of that funding that goes out with the October check, which enables us to increase education funding for a number of programs. The new result is that this amendment would increase funding for education and training programs by $1,246,000,000 over the same period of time, which is being considered in this bill. Title I, overall, would be increased by $450 million; dislocated workers would be increased by $100 million. That would enable us to provide one-half of the President's request for an increase so that 50,000 additional workers who lose their jobs because of the impact of foreign imports can get help to be retrained. For Head Start, it enables us to add $70 million to maintain the same number of kids who were funded last year.”