Bob Schaffer: “It is late here in Washington, but it is not too late to talk about children, and school children, to be even more…”

“It is late here in Washington, but it is not too late to talk about children, and school children, to be even more specific about it. This is an important issue and an important topic. Education is one of the subject matters that I have focused on in my 6 years here in Congress. It is a topic that I devoted quite a lot of time to as a State legislator in Colorado in the 9 years before I came to Congress, something I take quite personally. I have got 5 children of my own back home, and those that are of school age are in public school right now, and trying to find a way to improve America's education system has been pretty much a perpetual pursuit of mine and something I believe in very firmly and passionately, and I will be talking tonight about education tax credits, which is a central education issue that will be debated this year before the House of Representatives and the Senate also, and something that is very important to our President and, even more importantly, to people around the country.”