So what my colleague is really telling me is, out of the $122 billion we are currently spending on education, only $79 billion is actually getting out there to help the students; and the other $45 billion roughly is going to bureaucracy?
Mark Neumann: “So what my colleague is really telling me is, out of the $122 billion we are currently spending on education, only $79…”
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Discussing education funding and bureaucracy in a floor speech.
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