HON. RON PAUL
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, October 14, 1999
1999 Ron Paul 105:1 Mr. PAUL.
Mr. Speaker, today I am placing
in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD an amendment
I, along with my colleague, Mr. DOOLITTLE of
California, are offering to H.R. 3037, the
Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill, to reduce
funding for the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) by $30,000,000, increase funding
for the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA) by $25,000,000 and apply
$5,000,000 toward debt reduction. Our
amendment provides an increase in financial
support to help local schools cope with the
federal IDEA mandates by reducing funding
for an out-of-control bureaucracy that is running
roughshod over the rights of workers, and
even defying the Supreme Court!
1999 Ron Paul 105:2 The NLRB has repeatedly proven itself incapable
of acting as an unbiased arbiter for individual
employees. Most recently the NLRB
established a new nationwide rule that union
officials may force employees to pay for union
organizing drives as a condition of employment
— directly contradicting several Supreme
Court rulings!
1999 Ron Paul 105:3 It is an outrage that the tax dollars of working
men and women are wasted on an agency
that flaunts Supreme Court rulings in support
of its forced-dues agenda — especially when
local schools are struggling with the IDEA
mandate that they provide a “free and appropriate”
public education to children with disabilities.
1999 Ron Paul 105:4 Congress must make funding for schools
and disabled children a greater priority than
funding for a rogue federal agency. Therefore,
hope all my colleagues will support the Paul-Doolittle amendment to H.R. 3037.
