Bob Schaffer: “if I can interject, if the District really did need a new building and that was the education enrichment project that a…”

the expectation level of accountability and the immediacy of a response is far quicker, and greater, and more precise, and more meaningful when we move authority actually away from Washington and back to the neighborhood.

This is a bill that is about rich versus poor. And it is surprising to me to hear the opponents of the rule and the bill speak so viciously against the poor in America because that is what they are doing. See, if one is wealthy in America…

And we are going to start out small with the proposal just to prove that it works first, before we move further. As we draw to a close here in the next couple of minutes, I just want to commend our President. President George W. Bush laid…

It is the fundamental right and obligation of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children.