mr. speaker , i yield myself such time as i may consume .  i am delighted to provide the gentleman some facts .  fact number one , title i has grown 10 percent per year since 2000 .  pell grant funding , grown 10.3 percent per year since 2000 .  no child left behind funding , grown 40 percent .  special education since 1996 has more than quadrupled .  funding for idea has quadrupled since 1996 .  idea funded only 8 percent of the per pupil expenditure in 1994 and 1995 .  now it is nearly 20 percent .  the education department discretionary budget authority has increased 146 percent since 1995 .  those are the facts .  was there not a conscience in the congress prior to 1995 ?  is a 146 percent increase unconscionable ?  the commitment to education , the commitment to health care , the commitment to the nih , the commitment to defense and the commitment to policies that expand and grow our economy and give americans tremendous opportunities have been embodied in our budgets and are embodied in this budget .  mr. speaker , i reserve the balance of my time .  