House Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:04:00 to 0:08:00
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Michael N. Castle: and renovate. i'm proud that this legislation do colleagues to support it and i yield back the balance of my time. th the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield at this time to the ranking subcommittee ranking member, the gentleman from delaware, such time as he may

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Speech By: Michael N. Castle

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Michael N. Castle: consume, mr. castle. the chair: the gentleman from delaware is recognized. mr. castle: thank you, mr. and i thank you very much, mr. mckeeon, for the time. let -- mr. mckeene, for the time. we all believe in school construction. we believe our children should be able to attend the best school facilitiewe could provide and i happen to believe in the green energy aspect as

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Michael N. Castle: well. i give mr. loebsack and mr. miller an ok. i had an amendment that was not approved by the rules committee and there was an amendment also not approved by the rules

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Michael N. Castle: committee and mine would have dealt with funding title 1. this would help the schls with lower income students in it. we now fund that at $13.9 billion, i think, and the authorizing is $25 billion. this has been underfunded forever under the previous democratic congress, under the republican congress and now

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Michael N. Castle: under the democratic congress again. so we simply have not lived up to our promise to these schools to bring in money to help with their education. the same thing is true of idea. the individuals th disabilities education act and, yes, we've increased that somewhat as a percentage. we're supposed to be up to 40%. i don't think we've quite reached the halfway point with

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Michael N. Castle: respect to that. again, that's crossed a lot of congresses, a lot of presidents and we can point fingers at one another. and on msnbc members on both sides who have tried to help with that, many good democrats and many good republicans. we have not funded those programs adequately. obviously low-income schools and children with disabilities need all the help they possibly

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Michael N. Castle: can get. and yet we're starting a new program today and i believe the authorization is something like $40 billion or something of that nature in this. we won't live up to that. we won't be able to live up to it. so this is good headlining. the federal government to help with schools. school construction has been the responsibility of local school districts and, of course, the surrounding

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Michael N. Castle: properties that may pay the taxes for that and the states. i know in my state the state has stepped up and is a big part of school construction. that's vitally important. we try to keep our schools up with local taxpayers' dollars. the federal government has assigned roles dealing with things that we already do that we are not living up to try as

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Michael N. Castle: we might. my concern is if we start this problem you are going to see an increase in request for school construction that is going to blow everything out of the water. probably a tripling d quadruplinin a period of a year if i had to guess. all kinds of schools that believe they're ok now is going to find, gee, there's federal dollars to be had.

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Michael N. Castle: we'll put together a green energy program. and you are going to see the demand triple and quadruple in a peri of a year or so, in my belief. so i think we need to consider seriously what we are doing. again, we're all for this. i can't imagine anyone who would be opposed to thi

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Michael N. Castle: conceptually but can we have another education program that will be underfunded? and that says nothing about the overall deficit in our country. we've seep reports in the last day or two that this deficit is the highest we've ever had. this administration has indicate it is more than willing to spend money but how are we going to get the revenues to offset that?

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Michael N. Castle: and now we are going to add a new program that we unfortunately can't afford at this time. so for all these reasons i would hope we would think carefully before we would