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8 Tax Foundation's Washington News 1 (1956)

handle is hein.tera/wingnews0010 and id is 1 raw text is: Januar 6 1996 920 Washington Building Washington 5. D. C:. House Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) stated this week that he hopes to bring up in the House within the next week or two the bill (H.R. 7535) to authorize Federal aid for school construction which was reported by the House Education and Labor Committee last July. If the Speaker is successful in getting prompt clearance for this measure from the Rules Committee, then the Federal aid to education issue will provide probably the first major legislative battle of the new session. The Rayburn sched- ule also seems to imply that, at least so far as the House is concerned, there will be little inclination or opportunity to study or consider the revised school aid proposals that the Administration is expected to pre- sent in a special message, perhaps within the next week-. According to earlier reports, the broadened and improved program of Federal assistance which Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Folsom promised at the conclusion of the recent White House Conference on Education may propose Federal grants of $250 million annually over a five-year period for school construction, in addition to Federal loans, credit assistance, grants for state planning, etc. These reports seem to be borne out by the President's State of the Union message, when he stated: Such a program, which should be limited to a five-year period, must operate to increase rather than decrease local and State support of schools and to give the greatest help to the States and localities with the least financial resources. Not many are willing at this point to predict the fate of Federal aid to education legislation. Representative Powell (D-N.Y.) has de- clared his intention to offer the so-called anti-segregation amendment, and confidently predicted that supporters of this amendment have the votes to secure its adoption. Federal aid supporters have expressed fear that any such amendment might kill the bill's chances. In some areas, too, Federal aid to education does not seem to be receiving the support its proponents have claimed. Representative Hyde (R-Md.) recently invited residents of Maryland's Sixth Congressional District to express their opinion on the Federal aid issue, and, according to reports, letters he has received thus far are opposed, almost two to one. Moreover, opponents of Federal aid, and some who have been on the fence, are wondering about the recent report by the Subcommittee on Low- Income Families of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, of which Representative Kelley (D-Pa.), sponsor of H.R. 7535, is a member. That subcommittee recommends direct Federal grants-in-aid to the States, ini- tially for construction of school plant and equipment, based on an equal- ization formula which takes account of the relative economic need among the States (Emphasis supplied). Some opponents point to this as confir- mation of their claim that present Federal aid proposalb are only the be- ginning--the old foot-in-the-door technique. 11H1 HH' t vol.__1L No.2

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