Prospects for school funding help wilt in U.S. Senate

By Lisa Lambert and Susan Cornwell/Reuters

Senator Tom Harkin said on Tuesday he would drop plans to attach a $23 billion public education fund to a supplemental defense spending bill, bowing to Republican opposition and procedural complications. Harkin, a Democrat who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said he would find another way to create the fund, that was modeled after the $40 billion state stabilization account in the economic stimulus passed last year. The House of Representatives has included the fund in its supplemental appropriations bill. Once that bill passes, and the two chambers of Congress confer to reconcile their legislation, Harkin said he would fight to keep the fund in the final bill to be sent to President Barack Obama to sign into law. "Republicans are adamant that they don't want to fund the education. I have no Republicans who will vote for it," he said (more...)

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