[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          DEMOCRATS KEEP REPUBLICANS IN TOWN TO FUND EDUCATION

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Day 111 of this Congress. This Congress has worked 111 
days this year. The average American has worked 202 days so far this 
year. The Republican majority is being held against its will in 
Washington, D.C. They wanted to adjourn last Saturday after 108 days of 
work. Because so far as they were concerned, their job was done. They 
had served the special interests. They had killed insurance industry 
HMO reform, they had killed for the tobacco industry cessation of 
teenage smoking, and they had served Wall Street very well.
  When they wanted to adjourn last Saturday, there were zero dollars 
for the after-school programs, zero dollars for the school-to-work 
program, zero dollars for new teachers. Today because the President and 
the Democrat minority kept them in town to work just a few more days, 
they might even put in 115 days this year, those programs are funded 
and now they want to say, ``Well, it is really about how we want to 
spend the money, that billion dollars on the new teachers. It is about 
local control.'' That is not the point. They did not want to spend a 
penny on these new education programs. It is very clear. You wanted to 
adjourn without one cent additional for education.

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