Date: 2008-02-07
Speaker: GEORGE MILLER (democrat)
Chamber: H
State: California

Madam Speaker. one of the great coalitions we have in the Congress of the United States. supported by every school board. every teacher organization. every educational group in the country was to fully fund IDEA. It was bipartisan. letters went down with 200. 300. 350. 375 Members of Congress saying fully fund IDEA. We got pounded on our side when we stance of werent in control of the Congress. directed t thats the way it was. Everybody was ment and for it. right up until the moment that What ab they took control of the Congress of you talke the United States. because in No Child school dis Left Behind. when we asked to fully nificent y fund IDEA. the nowminority leader of to this sy the Republicans pulled the plug. and the best y that great bipartisan coalition hasnt allowed ur been heard of since. Finally. I would be embarrassed too. I would that are i try to struggle to come back because time. in b: you disappointed the American public. speak to t You certainly disappointed the fami- munity t lies of these children. and you cer- colleges b tainly disappointed these children and them aga those who struggle to give them an ters. .education every day. So now as they Make yc struggle .to come back. what are they men. You going to do? scandalou They are going to say unless you education. fund IDEA. you cant spend any money ture. How on higher education under this bill. The SPI Folks. thats all money in higher edu- objection. cation under this bill. which is under dered on t] this bill. So you wont be able to pro- There w vide loan forgiveness for firefighters The SP and policemen and public defenders and question il prosecutors and nurses. You wont be The qu( able to help veterans reenter the high- Speaker p er education system when they come the noes a back with so many of the injuries that they are coming back from. We wont be able to give them the as- Mr. FEI sistance thats in this legislation. For demand a those veterans who lost a family mem- A record ber. this bill says they are automati- Pursuan cally entitled. the children are auto- rule XX. matically entitled to the Pell Grant. motion to Those veterans families wont get 5minute v that. a member of their family paid the ordered. supreme price in the defense of this agreeing t country. They wont get that. The vote You are not going to get what we vice. and t have been working for for so many not voting years. led by Mr. MCKEON. led by RAHM EMANUEL. to simplify it so families can understand the access to the loan pro- Aderholt gram so they can pay for their kids Akin education. For the first time in 25 Alexander Bachmann years . we have a simplified system. But Bachus you wont get that. families wont get Barrett (SC) that. Barrow What about safety on college cam- Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) puses? We had a moment of silence Biggert here for those students. We had hear- Bilbray ings all over Capitol Hill for those stu- Bilirakis Bishop (UT) dents. but we address campus safety on Blackburn a bipartisan basis. We slugged it out. Blunt we worked it out. we did it. You wont Boehner get that. Those campuses wont get Bonner Bono Mack that kind of assistance. Boozman What about now for the first time a Boustany masters program for the historically Brady (TX) black colleges? You wont get that. Be- Broun (GA) Brown (SC) cause you shirked your duties year BrownWaite. after year after year for over a decade. Ginny you have now decided these are the Buchanan Burgess people that you are going to punish. Burton (IN) This is the tenet of this party on the Buyer other side of the aisle. Calvert Camp (MI) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Campbell (CA)