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Tom Cole: “Let's put more money in idea, which is money to help kids…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Cole on Congress with guest Rep. John Moolenaar

Published | Video Starts at 26:38

And I think moving money from programs I would argue are fairly ineffective toward things like, okay, let's do more research at the National Institute of Health. Let's put more money in idea, which is money to help kids with disabilities, and ship it out of Washington back to local school districts. who have to wrestle with these problems. We've done actually a lot of good, I think, in reprioritizing that budget over the last couple of years. (26:38–26:48)

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Asserts a proposal to increase funding for IDEA to support children with disabilities and distribute it to local school districts.

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