Back home in Colorado, there is no question that the majority of constituents that we hear from in my State are very strongly behind the belief that the era of big government is over. When we look at the President's proposed budget plan, it does entail escalated rates of spending here in Washington, additional tax increases in that budget, and just tremendous growth of the bureaucracy and the regulatory structure in Washington.
Discussing constituents' views on government spending and the President's budget proposal.
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This is the greatest environment for school reform I have seen in my career in here, in 38 years on this committee, and we should be taking advantage of it.
The question is now, when we see all of the reform that is taking place, before you didn't know where your qualified teachers were, you wouldn't say where the distribution was, your graduation rate--any improvement made you AYP.
You can't have all of this change that has been developed in the states or all of the reluctance to change that has been developed in other states and say that this is somehow one-size-fits-all.
I really enjoyed the chance to discuss and act on issues similar to the ones you're considering today.