and Secondary Education Act, which targets disadvantaged students. The motion to table was agreed to, 83-15. [Vote 126, 6/13/00] XXXX Voted Against Authorizing New Funding For Education. In 2000, XXXX voted against an amendment that would strike the reforms to reduce Federal mandates in return for improved academic performance. It would authorize funding for new specific purposes, including hiring teachers, to build and repair schools, and to run afterschool programs. The amendment was rejected, 45-54. [Vote 90, 5/3/00] XXXX Opposed Creating An Education Reserve Fund. In 2000, XXXX opposed an amendment that would create an Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reserve fund which would permit an increase in total Federal spending of up to $15 billion over 5 years for any new Federal legislation that permitted ESEA spending that increased accountability and targeted the most impoverished areas and schools most likely to be in distress. Without the creation of a reserve fund, such proposed new spending would be subject to a point of order that would require a three-fifths majority (60) vote to waive. The motion was rejected, 46-54. [Vote 67, 4/7/00] XXXX Voted Against Diverting Tax Cuts To Education Spending. In 2000, XXXX voted for an amendment that would deny $28.133 billion of the $150 billion in tax cuts in the underlying resolution. Instead, it would propose spending it on the Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services budget function, with the stated hope that it would be spent on a variety of Democrat proposals to increase Federal involvement in education. Additionally, the amendment would spend another $6.5 billion of the on-budget surplus that is intended for debt reduction on that budget function. [Vote 54, 4/5/00] XXXX Voted Against a Senate Resolution Seeking Increased Spending for Various Education Programs. In 1999, XXXX voted against a Senate Resolution expressing the sense of the Senate in favor of increasing Federal spending on various Federal education programs and proposals, including for hiring more teachers, to triple funding for after-school programs, and to modernize schools. [Vote 294, 9/27/99] XXXX Voted Against Using Tax Cuts for Wealthy to Increase Education Funding. In 1999, XXXX voted against a motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to allow consideration of the Bingaman amendment to S.1429, which was an amendment to express the sense of the Senate that $132 billion should be shifted from tax cuts for upper-income taxpayers to public education programs. [Vote 232, 7/30/99] XXXX Voted to Allow State and Local Governments to Be Flexible With Education Funding. In 1999, XXXX was one of 98 senators to vote for H.R.800, which was a bill to expand from 12 to 50 the number of states eligible for greater latitude in spending federal school aid. The measure would allow a participating state to waive certain federal rules normally required to use federal education funds as long as the state meets certain accountability standards. The bill passed 98-1. [Vote 48, 3/11/99] XXXX Cast Crucial Vote; to Convert Federal Funding of Education Initiatives Into a Block Grant Program. In 1998, XXXX cast a crucial vote for an amendment that allows States to decide within one year how it would like to receive its future federal education funding: administered as it is currently, sent directly to the states or sent directly to the local school districts. States would decide if they wanted to block grant many Federal K-12 education programs, providing approximately $10 billion to State or local educational agencies; allows governors and State legislatures to distribute funds to: local school districts, State's education authority, or State's current educational system; establishes Title I, bilingual education, and General Education block grant programs; requires State legislatures to select funding option within one year of enactment, or Education Secretary will allocate funds through local block grant option. [Vote 91, 4/22/98] XXXX Voted Against Increased Education Funding. In 1998, XXXX voted to kill an amendment that recommends $5.9 billion over four years for increased education spending. [Vote 81, 4/2/98] XXXX Voted Against Providing Education Funding for Innovative Education Reform Efforts. In 1998, XXXX voted to kill an amendment to recommend increasing spending on education programs by $1.5 billion over five years, financed by across-the-board cuts in non-defense discretionary spending. [Vote 78, 4/2/98] 62