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Appropriations chair warns of $800 million four-year education shortfall; committee moves to executive session
Summary
On Dec. 3 the Appropriations committee chair said a new four-year forecast shows about an $800,000,000 gap in education funding and the committee voted to enter an executive session to receive a homeland security briefing.
Mister Chairman, opening the Dec. 3 agency hearing of the Appropriations committee, told the public the panel was signaling a fiscal problem by wearing red blazers and presented a new four-year forecast for education funding. “When we first started...we did the long term forecast,” he said, and that initial outlook showed “about $686,000,000 in the hole.” He said more recent estimates and recalibration of expenditures put the four-year shortfall at “$800,000,000 in the hole.”
The chairman said the committee…
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