House Proceeding on Feb 7th, 2008 :: 0:58:57 to 1:01:57
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per view of ie states. the 10th amendment gives them that parameter. and yet it is possible we ignore that. it is possible to soup up a volkswagon but we never should. it's also possible for us to

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Rob Bishop: tell states how to run their policy on education, how to appropriate their money on education, but it never should happen. the provision to which i object is maintenance of effort. this was attempted

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Speech By: Rob Bishop

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Rob Bishop: to be added but was removed. most in local governments are surprised to see this coming back in this particular bill. . this was also not discussed in our committee to any detail. it is one of those

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Rob Bishop: things that the rules committee will always talk about how these things should be discussed in committee. but when we committee after committee have major pieces of legislation held close to

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Rob Bishop: the vest and only brought only hours or days before the actual markup in a committee, oftentimes we find things within those bills that are surprising. this provision was found in this bill

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Rob Bishop: and it was not one of those pleasant surprises. maintenance of effort amendment that was put into this bill requires the states to maintain a five-year rolling average of their funding for

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Rob Bishop: higher education. and if they ever go under that five-year average of education, their leep funds, renamed in this bill, will be yanked from those states, unless they go to the department of

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Rob Bishop: education and grovel before the secretary of education to try to get some kind of pen tans so they can get those -- penny tans so they can get those moneys back. we know states have cyclical

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Rob Bishop: budget years. in 2002 the average state increase in higher education was 1.8%. 2006 was 9.3%. realizing this proposal was in here, when we had a chance to add more money to higher education knowing

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Rob Bishop: we would be judged on a five-year rolling average there is no way i would put that increase in there. this is going to be counterproductive to states funding their system. even if this policy worked, we

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Rob Bishop: should not do it. h.l. menkin once said there is always an easy solution to a problem. it's unique, usual, and wrong. even if 24 was effective -- this was effective, it is wrong. it is

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Rob Bishop: wrong to tell states how they'll appropriate their money. it is wrong to give them more federal mandates. thchairman of the committee, mr. miller, will soften this proposal in the manager's

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Rob Bishop: amendment. that is good but doesn't go far enough. mr. hoekstra had a perfect compromise amendment that was refused to be considered by the rules committee on a tent. it is wrong -- tentity -- technicality.

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Rob Bishop: it is wrong. it was not allowed to be made in order. that is wrong. the proposal is wrong. the discussion process is wrong. it should be if we are not going to discuss these issues in the committee,

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Rob Bishop: it should be the purview of allowing people to come here on the floor and ask these issues which are not just technical in nature but philosophical in any ture what the federal government

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Rob Bishop: ought to do and what it ought not to do. this particular provision in here should be discussed. we should not full well what we are doing to states if we move forward on that area. for the

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Rob Bishop: rules committee not to make that in order i think is wrong. i yield back the balancef my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman

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David Dreier: from ohio. ms. sutton: i would inquire of the gentleman from washington if he has any remaining speakers. mr. hastings: i have several speakers that want to remark on this. ms. sutton: i reserve

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Speech By: David Dreier