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1	subject? Mr. Raver, on Page 174 of the record of the hear-
2	ing on June 9, I said the following, in reference to a
3	bill which I called, quote, The bracket bill, unquote, and
4	you might wish to correct this, and that is why I an read-
5	ing it to you. I said, This was a bill which found its
6	way into the legislative hopper at the time the Sherbow
7	Commission's Report was implemented. It would have, in
8	effect, struck out the preferential treatment for public
9	schools so far as the governor was concerned, and would
10	give him authority to treaC their suggested budget just as
11	every other department's suggested budget is treated, to
12	the extent that he could as provided by law. They always
13	put that phrase in, as provided by law. That will take
14	care of everything. Of course, there was a big political
15	whingding, still quoting, about that. Don Pullen went down
16	to Annapolis and stirred around in the nuts and bolts, and
17	the nuts and bolts of it was, of course, that they killed
18	the bill and nobody would ever admit to the authorship of
19	the bill, which is another very interesting thing, although
20	it was stated at the time that Dr. Flack had done it. Now,
21	1 why accuse Dr. Flack, I don't know, but anyway, there hasn't