SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SEP 19.1997 TRANSFER HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JAY DICKEY, Arkansas ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking S. ANTHONY MCCANN, ROBERT L. KNISELY, SUSAN E. QUANTIUS, MICHAEL K. MYERS, SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1998 United states HEARINGS " BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois, Chairman C. W. BILL YOUNG, Florida ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JAY DICKEY, Arkansas ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin NOTE: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. S. ANTHONY McCann, Robert L. KNISELY, SUSAN E. QUANTIUS, MICHAEL K. MYERS, and FRANCINE MACK, Subcommittee Staff For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 A653 1987 pts COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BOB LIVINGSTON, Louisiana, Chairman JOSEPH M. MCDADE, Pennsylvania JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois RON PACKARD, California SONNY CALLAHAN, Alabama JAMES T. WALSH, New York CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina DAVID L. HOBSON, Ohio ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma JOE KNOLLENBERG, Michigan JAY DICKEY, Arkansas JACK KINGSTON, Georgia MIKE PARKER, Mississippi RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi MICHAEL P. FORBES, New York GEORGE R. NETHERCUTT, JR., Washington MARK W. NEUMANN, Wisconsin RANDY "DUKE" CUNNINGHAM, California TODD TIAHRT, Kansas ZACH WAMP, Tennessee TOM LATHAM, Iowa ANNE M. NORTHUP, Kentucky ROBERT B. ADERHOLT, Alabama DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia DAVID E. SKAGGS, Colorado NANCY PELOSI, California PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California NITĄ M. LOWEY, New York JOSÉ E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina JAMES W. DYER, Clerk and Staff Director (II) 195035 HON. RICHARD W. RILEY, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION MARSHALL S. SMITH, UNDER SECRETARY THOMAS P. SKELLY, DIRECTOR, BUDGET SERVICE INTRODUCTION OF WITNESSES Mr. PORTER. The subcommittee will come to order. We're very pleased to welcome today Secretary Richard Riley, the Secretary of Education, to begin our hearings on the Department of Education's budget. Mr. Secretary, I want to welcome you to your fifth appearance before this subcommittee. I would particularly like to thank you and your fine staff, including Tom Skelly, your recently-appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, for providing the subcommittee with complete budget justifications within a short period of time of the arrival of the President's budget. OPENING REMARKS OF THE CHAIRMAN Mr. Secretary, I believe that the Administration's approach of simply adding funds to the education accounts with no real understanding of their effectiveness is both imprudent and harms rather than helps them. We give the illusion of assisting and caring, but in reality some of the funds go to programs of dubious effectiveness, overhead expenses, or narrow categorical programs of interest only to policy insiders. We need a far better understanding of the impact of programs on the children. I'm disappointed that the consultation with the subcommittee over the implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act has begun so late in the cycle. Moreover, new proposals such as technology, school construction, national testing, afterschool centers, and others are presented to Congress with no performance measures and seem to have been created without any consideration of them. (1) |