Rick Perry, David Dewhurst vow to challenge education-spending

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By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News
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Melanie Mason in Washington contributed to this report.
AUSTIN – State leaders vowed Thursday to go to court if Congress gives final approval to a bill that would force Texas to preserve current education spending levels through 2013 to qualify for additional federal aid.

Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called the requirement – contained in a $26 billion job protection bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday – an unconstitutional intrusion into state affairs that could cost Texas schools more than $820 million. The House is expected to take final action on the measure next week.

"We're going to file suit, and I would be delighted to be a named plaintiff," Dewhurst said. He called on the House members from Texas to get the provision removed.

Dewhurst said a lawsuit would be based on the fact that the restrictive language on education spending applies only to Texas.

Perry complained of federal intrusion into state authority and said that under the state Constitution, officials can't guarantee future spending
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1. Doggett has already called their bullshit

They're going to turn away education money, just because the Feds would force them to spend it on "education"?

Yes they would. :grr: