[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 30008]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CANNOT COUNT

  (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, tomorrow the Department of Education will 
make an announcement that should concern every one of us. The 
Department will announce that since 1998, its books are unauditable.
  This is an agency that receives an annual appropriation of $35 
billion and manages another $85 billion in a loan portfolio. A $120 
billion agency that cannot account for its spending.
  Now, I suggest that the President, when he comes back, he is in 
Turkey this week, and the minority leader when he comes back from the 
West Coast from his fund-raising expedition, when these folks come back 
to work, that they join the Republicans here to correct the 
mismanagement of the Department of Education. Because, Mr. Speaker, the 
children of America do count. Unfortunately, the Department of 
Education cannot count.

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