Posted on 11/18/2005 4:23:28 AM PST by MNJohnnie
WASHINGTON — Federal aid for education would be frozen under a bill emerging from House-Senate negotiations. Aid for special education would increase by less than 1 percent while programs funded under President Bush's No Child Left Behind program would be cut by more than 3 percent.
To avoid cutting more deeply into education, medical training and Pell Grants, lawmakers are reluctantly giving up about $1 billion worth of home state projects from a sweeping bill funding education, labor and health and human services programs.
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The problem with money for university education is that it only serves to raise the price of that education.
The more the federal government gives, the more the price goes up to soak up the additional dollars.
Thank God! They can't cut "education" funding enough.
Amen
X2!
I will cheer when it becomes FINAL and SIGNED.. Funny thing about these spending sprees nothing is what it seems until they leave conference. Then it takes months to discover who are life's lottery winners.
Awwwwww! The poor lawmakers! How it must hurt them to be unable to provide every handout for every constituency. I think the taxpayers should voluntarily cough up more money so the dear Congresspeople can feel better about themselves. (/rant)
Seriously, good for Congress for saying no to *something*, and Phhoop! on Fox News for writing this drivel.
Oh, now I see it was the A.P. Duh. Apologies to Fox News; next time, write your own copy!
A Cut of 3% translates into how many more dollars?
Yeah right. Get back to me when a single alphabet agency is on the chopping block. Until the unemployment lines are filling with former Federal employees, it's nothing but smoke and mirrors. Blackbird.
Bring back "paygo", we then can avoid all this grandstanding.
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