Ding! Dong! The Doggett Amendment Is Dead!!

They had their fun but at the end of the day it was going to be very harmful to Texas children and teachers.

Governor Rick Perry

The schoolchildren and teachers in Texas will finally have the opportunity to receive the $830 million they should have had in the first place. This funding should have never been denied and it is a shame that Mr. Doggett put Texas education funding at risk.For months Senator Hutchison and I have been working together to repeal this language and give schoolchildren teachers and our communities the funding they need during this financial crisis. We are one step closer to ending a senseless war on Texas schoolchildren.  

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess R-Lewisville

This is a big win for Texas taxpayers teachers and students. Im very pleased that Congressman Doggetts unconstitutional amendment − which would have deprived Texas schoolchildren of $830 million − will be repealed.

Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst

It was unthinkable to deny Texas schools access to emergency funds that are available to every other state. While state and local budgets and property taxes are strained to the limits our schools should not be needlessly excluded from accessing available assistance. Congressman Burgess and I worked hard to have this anti-Texas provision taken out of the budget bill. Texas schools and students will no longer be unfairly singled out and penalized.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison R-Texas

It is welcome news for Texas students and teachers that this critical funding has been recovered after an untimely political stunt jeopardized these much-needed resources. Petty politics have no place in what should be an otherwise simple equation that fairly distributes federal education dollars to each state. Texas schools were unfairly penalized and left in the dark during one of their most challenging budgeting years to date. Im relieved this has been resolved and hope these resources make their way to Texas classrooms as quickly as possible.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn R-Texas

This was very purposefully done by Lloyd Doggett and Democrats in the Congress. They believe that they should dictate from Washington how this money should be spent in Texas when every other state in the United States got to bring it to their state through funding formulas. We were singled out.

State Sen. Florence Shapiro R-Plano chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee

Thank goodness! Repealing Congressman Doggetts petty law that singled out Texas will help fund our local schools and eliminates a stinker of arrogant Washington-knows-best interference.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady R-The Woodlands