[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 144 (Monday, October 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              ON EDUCATION

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, let us compare and contrast what the 
Democrats want to do with money for education and what Republicans 
propose to do with the money.
  Republicans want the money to go to the classroom. They want their 
local schools and parents to have more control over those dollars that 
are spent. Democrats want more Federal control over the money. They 
want more money to go to the Department of Education, the bureaucracy. 
The ironic thing is that you will never find a Democrat who will admit 
more Federal money means more Federal control, more bureaucracy and 
less power in the hands of the local schools. No, you will never find a 
Democrat to admit that, but just ask yourself this question, when was 
the last time Washington intervened and did not ask for more control? 
When was the last time the experts in Washington, D.C., did not try to 
tell, have more say in how those Washington dollars were spent?
  It all comes down to power and control, more in the hands of parents 
and local schools or in the hands of the Federal bureaucrats in 
Washington.

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