Update on the Edujobs Bill
So, it's May and the pink slips are going out. Where exactly is that $23 billion to help stabilize education jobs?
Well, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing education spending and the author of the bill, has plans to introduce it as an amendment to a bill making supplemental appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Senate aide told me. Lobbyists expect that bill to hit the floor in the next couple weeks.
Two issues have the potential to gum up the works or at least spark debate, either on the Senate floor or later on in the process. The first, and by far the most important, is that if the bill is attached to the war supplemental there doesn't have to be an offset, meaning that the cost doesn't need to be covered by a cut to another program.
Well, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing education spending and the author of the bill, has plans to introduce it as an amendment to a bill making supplemental appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Senate aide told me. Lobbyists expect that bill to hit the floor in the next couple weeks.
Two issues have the potential to gum up the works or at least spark debate, either on the Senate floor or later on in the process. The first, and by far the most important, is that if the bill is attached to the war supplemental there doesn't have to be an offset, meaning that the cost doesn't need to be covered by a cut to another program.
