From the National Governors' Association, December, 2000.
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The Senate had scheduled a debate this week on reauthorizing the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provides much of the federal money for public schools. Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday said negotiations would likely push the start of the debate into next week. For weeks, congressional and White House negotiators have been haggling over spending levels. Kennedy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which wrote the ESEA legislation, said the Senate likely would not get to the bill until Monday. Talks were continuing Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill.