From the National Governors' Association, December, 2000.
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We don't need anybody holding it up any further,'' Lott of Mississippi said on Thursday. To force the issue, he scheduled a Tuesday vote on a motion to start debate on the bill. One of Bush's top legislative priorities, the education bill has been on hold since Monday while Democrats and the White House haggled over funding for elementary and secondary education programs in fiscal 2002, which begins Oct. 1. Democrats have also demanded that negotiators iron out all outstanding policy issues in the bill before the Senate opens debate. Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, said after Lott scheduled Tuesday's vote.