[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICANS TARGET EDUCATION AGAIN

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from 
North Carolina when he asks to stop the slinging of the mud on the one 
hand, and not the other.
  But, Mr. Speaker, let me talk about education this morning. Did we 
learn anything last year in Congress? Maybe we need to do more homework 
on our own. The American people overwhelmingly rejected education cuts 
last year, and they still do. But the Republicans want to deny 
education services to hundreds of thousands of children with the bill 
we have today.
  The Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill cuts education funding 
$2.6 billion below the level needed to keep up with inflation. Overall 
education will be cut below fiscal year 1995 levels at the same time 
school enrollment is going up 7 percent. Education reform funding and 
Eisenhower teacher training grants are being eliminated. The Republican 
bill provides $475 million less in title I funding for disadvantaged 
children than the administration requested.
  It is time for the Republicans to listen to the American people and 
provide the funds for education. It is America's future we are talking 
about.

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