[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 77 (Monday, June 19, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H4596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE AT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, in poll after poll, the American people 
have made it clear that the number one issue on their minds is 
education.
  Americans want to make sure their children are well prepared for 
tomorrow. Americans want to know that their education tax dollars are 
being spent on their children, not on bureaucracies or needless 
studies.
  Why is it, then, that this administration's Education Department got 
a D-minus from Ernst and Young, a private auditing firm? If a private 
company had gotten that rating, the Securities and Exchange Commission 
would suspend their stock from trading.
  Why is it that the Department of Education's own employees are 
bilking the Department and sticking the taxpayers with the tab?
  Madam Speaker, we need to reform the Federal education bureaucracy. 
We need to make sure our tax dollars are being spent in classrooms, not 
in Washington. We need to prepare our children to be tomorrow's 
leaders.
  We need to pass the Republican Dollars to the Classroom Act.

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