[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 139 (Thursday, October 14, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2103]
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                 PAUL-DOOLITTLE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3037

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                             HON. RON PAUL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 14, 1999

  Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, today I am placing in the Congressional Record 
an amendment I, along with my colleague, Mr. Doolittle of California, 
are offering to H.R. 3037, the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill, 
to reduce funding for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by 
$30,000,000, increase funding for the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (IDEA) by $25,000,000 and apply $5,000,000 toward debt 
reduction. Our amendment provides an increase in financial support to 
help local schools cope with the federal IDEA mandates by reducing 
funding for an out-of-control bureaucracy that is running roughshod 
over the rights of workers, and even defying the Supreme Court!
  The NLRB has repeatedly proven itself incapable of acting as an 
unbiased arbiter for individual employees. Most recently the NLRB 
established a new nationwide rule that union officials may force 
employees to pay for union organizing drives as a condition of 
employment--directly contradicting several Supreme Court rulings!
  It is an outrage that the tax dollars of working men and women are 
wasted on an agency that flaunts Supreme Court rulings in support of 
its forced-dues agenda--especially when local schools are struggling 
with the IDEA mandate that they provide a ``free and appropriate'' 
public education to children with disabilities.
  Congress must make funding for schools and disabled children a 
greater priority than funding for a rogue federal agency. Therefore, I 
hope all my colleagues will support the Paul-Doolittle amendment to 
H.R. 3037.

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