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Paul Ryan: “What we have been seeing with this administration, and the gentleman should correct me if I am wrong, is the fact that…”

On the recordJune 6, 2000
What we have been seeing with this administration, and the gentleman should correct me if I am wrong, is the fact that they have lessened our commitment. They have gone away from funding the unfunded mandate we are imposing on local schools, to funding more Federal education programs that have even more strings attached to them, which tie the hands of local education decision-makers, and give us even more unfunded mandates in our schools?
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Discussing federal education funding and its impact on local schools.

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