[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 143 (Sunday, October 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10519]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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      FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRATS EDUCATION IS ABOUT MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

  (Mrs. CHENOWETH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include therein 
extraneous material.)
  Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, education is a 
perfect example of an issue where liberal Democrats and conservative 
Republicans disagree. For a liberal Democrat education is about one 
thing and one thing only. It is more money, more money, more money from 
Washington, D.C.
  Now last year they were here arguing for more money for education, 
and so we gave it to them. Education did not improve. The year before 
it was the same argument. We gave them more money. Education did not 
improve. And the year before that, and the year before that, and the 
year before that, and the year before that, and every single year for 
the past 30 years.
  Mr. Speaker, my question for the liberals is at what point do they 
conclude that maybe, just maybe, it is not the money from Washington, 
D.C.? The answer, of course, is that it is not the money, and even the 
liberals know it. They have created more Federal bureaucracies, more 
Washington, D.C. programs of dubious value and more administrative 
extravagances.
  Education achievement has not improved, but that is no surprise at 
all.

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