House Action on President's 'Goals 2000' Proposal Imminent

By Mark Pitsch

WASHINGTON--The House is expected to approve the Clinton Administration's education-reform bill this week, although Republicans plan to offer several amendments.

The proposed "goals 2000: educate America act'' was at first scheduled for a floor vote last week. But the debate was delayed briefly to give lawmakers time to study a package of amendments--the fruit of negotiations between the Administration and House Democrats--that will be offered with the bill, and to submit their own amendments for consideration by the House Rules Committee.

"We would have been happy to go [last] week,'' said Michael Cohen, a counselor to Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, "but some people were concerned that, moving it as rapidly as we could, there would be no foreknowledge...