[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 SPENDING CUTS TO EDUCATION IN LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. UDALL of New Mexico asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, as we move from budget and 
taxes to appropriations, we learn the true priorities of our colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle.
  We have seen a trillion dollar tax cut, and we have seen this 
trillion dollar tax cut divided into smaller pieces: Marriage tax and 
estate tax. But the bottom line is these are tax cuts which are 
targeted at a very few of our most privileged in our society.
  Now we bring forward today an education bill which provides no money 
for critical school modernization, for class size reduction, and for 
targeting low performing schools.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to vote against this 
misguided legislation.

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