[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 94 (Wednesday, July 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H5504]
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 to seek support for our Nation's 
children to learn and our teachers to 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 31 K-through-12 education programs to our 
children's classrooms. That means that $2.7 billion will be taken from 
the grasp of bureaucrats and put into the hands of a teacher who knows 
our child's name. Mr. Speaker, that means that every classroom in 
America will get an additional $425 on an average of $9,300 per public 
school. I urge my colleagues to join this important effort to 
redistribute education tax dollars away from bureaucrats to students, 
parents and teachers.
  Instead of paying for reports, studies, and layers of bureaucracy, I 
ask my colleagues to pay for teachers' salaries, textbooks, computers 
and other supplies. Let us put our children first, let us put their 
education first, let us turn rhetoric into action by passing the 
Dollars to the Classroom Act before our children return to school next 
fall.

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