[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 96 (Tuesday, June 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5777]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         CLINTON EDUCATION CUTS

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, our Democratic colleagues continue to 
distort our plan to balance the budget.
  Specifically, they have--in demagogic fashion--argued that our budget 
plan will devastate education in our country.
  In reality, our budget plan will protect important programs and 
consolidate and eliminate those that are duplicative and inefficient.
  Before attacking our efforts to balance the budget and lower taxes on 
working families, I ask that my Democratic colleagues review the 
administration's 1996 budget request for the Department of Education.
  The President proposes cutting the Department's budget by 9.8 percent 
and eliminating 30 percent of its programs.
  Contrary to his rhetoric of late, the President's budget seems to 
acknowledge that we should streamline Federal education programs.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the President and my Democratic colleagues to 
quit playing politics-as-usual and begin working with us to balance the 
budget.
  It is time to quit playing games and get down to the real business at 
hand.


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