[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4576-H4577]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      DOLLARS TO THE CLASSROOM ACT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask Members to help our 
Nation's children learn and teachers teach by supporting H.R. 3248, the 
Dollars to the Classroom Act. This bill will send at least 95 cents of 
every Federal dollar for 30 K-through-12 education programs to our 
children's classrooms. That

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means that over $3 billion a year will be taken from the grasp of 
bureaucrats and put into the hands of a teacher who knows your child's 
name.
  Mr. Speaker, that means that every classroom in America will get over 
$500 more per year. Instead of paying for reports, studies, and layers 
of bureaucracy, our tax dollars should be used to pay for teachers' 
salaries, textbooks, computers, microscopes and maps. That is what this 
bill does.
  Last October the Dollars to the Classroom resolution, sense of the 
House resolution, passed overwhelmingly. Now, in 1998, we must put 
rhetoric into action by passing the Dollars to the Classroom Act into 
law before our children return to school next fall.

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