Conservative House GOP Group Flexes Policy Muscle
As debates raged last year over how much federal aid to provide in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, including to help schools, a coalition of staunchly conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives insisted that lawmakers try to save money in other places to pay for hurricane relief.
When it came to education, the “Operation Offset” money-saving proposals from the Republican Study Committee were sure to spark protests: Eliminate subsidies for full-price school lunches and breakfasts, scrap the Even Start literacy program for disadvantaged parents and young children, and shutter the 69 schools run by the Department of Defense on military bases in the United States.
Though many of the group’s proposals—including those three—never got traction, pressure in part from RSC members to hold the line on spending resulted in a 1 percent cut to most federal agencies for fiscal 2006, including the Department of Education, which was already grappling...
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