[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 113 (Thursday, September 21, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H7938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      GET RID OF FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE AT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  (Mr. SCHAFFER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHAFFER. Mr. Speaker, back home in Colorado, school is just 
getting underway. Three of those kids in public schools are my own, and 
I care about education. And I, like most parents, want the U.S. 
Department of Education to get the money that it spends to the 
classroom. I do not want to see the Department waste any more on 
bureaucracy and red tape, and I am tired of the theft, the fraud, and 
the abuse that goes on at the Department of Education that robs 
children of the precious resources they need.
  Mr. Speaker, we spend $40 million a year on accountants and overseers 
and auditors to make sure that the money the Department gets does get 
to the children and the classroom. But it was a car dealer in 
Hyattsville, Maryland, that found the latest fraud of Department 
employees defrauding $2 million of the U.S. Department of Education 
into personal bank accounts. Mr. Speaker, let us get money to the 
classroom.
  Let us get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse at the U.S. Department 
of Education. Let us put children before crime and bureaucracy.

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