Representative Gara: Last year your Democrats put another $90 million into the operating budget at the conference committee. This year your Democrats put another $100 million into the operating budget at the conference committee. You seem overly concerned with the ROI from private industry. You should be concerned about the ROI on public industry, such as K12 public education. AK third highest per student spending; AK dead last in 4th grade reading. Why would one want to throw more money down that rabbit hole with no accountability for ROI? Why? Because the public employee unions, esp the NEA/AFT support your reelection. You should be more concerned with the K12 public ed system stealing hundreds of children's futures every year. And most of these children live in your district. What have you done for those kids?