Rep. Doggett Delivers Floor Speech on TX-Specific Language for Education Funding

Today, I delivered a speech of the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, a bill that is fully paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes, and will save teacher jobs and provide states $16.1 billion in health assistance to reduce shortfalls and help keep many others on the job, including police officers and firefighters. Specifically, I spoke in strong support of Texas-specific language that I authored along with members of the Texas Congressional Democratic Delegation to prevent state-diversion of $830 million in emergency education jobs funds elsewhere for noneducational issue.

You can be sure that Texas is singled out by this legislation—it was singled out by the Governor who grabbed $3.2 billion of federal aid to education to bailout a mismanaged state government. We didn't send that federal aid for education to Texas to plug a mismanaged state budget; we sent it to help our schoolchildren. In order to avoid history from repeating itself, we demand accountability, we demand support for quality public education and local control of education and not more mismanagement and interference from the State of Texas.

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