[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1778-H1779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ON EDUCATION CUTS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to follow up on these education 
cuts.
  As was stated previously, today the Republican leadership is putting 
forth a continuing resolution that would fund education programs for 
the rest of this year. But the bill is the largest cut

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in education in the history of this Nation, 13 percent below last 
year's level, $3.3 billion less in education funding.
  Do my colleagues know what that means? It means higher taxes in the 
municipalities that we represent around the country. In my home town, 
the school budget, they are talking about an increase of 9 cents per 
100-dollar assessment. If this level of Federal education cuts 
continues, the only ones that are going to suffer are the local 
property taxes or the children in the schools, because the local school 
boards will have the choice of either cutting the programs, increasing 
the class size, decreasing the quality of education, or increasing 
local taxes to pay for it.
  This notion that somehow if the Federal Government cuts back that 
that is something that is not going to have an impact locally, it does 
have an impact locally. It has an impact in every one of the 
municipalities that we represent around this country, either taxes are 
going to go up or the quality of education will decrease.

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