Bob Schaffer: “That is the educational empire which the gentleman just described, which is so hard to understand. There is such…”

“That is the educational empire which the gentleman just described, which is so hard to understand. There is such momentum, and all of these people that are employed, and not only at the U.S. Department of Education, but the State Departments of Education, they make careers out of this paperwork and these rules. Somebody reads all of this stuff. Somebody actually opens up the mail when the superintendent fills out the paperwork and sends it to Washington. There is a person here in Washington whose job it is to open up all of these forms and compile them and collate them and make reports on them. When we start talking about getting rid of the rules and regulations, consolidating programs and increasing flexibility, our goal is to help children. Unfortunately, some people in Washington feel threatened by our objective to help kids. There is a huge bureaucratic empire that is sustained through all of the monotony, and that is the objective of the Vice President and President. They have worked tirelessly to preserve this large bureaucracy to preserve all of these rules, to preserve these regulations, and make decisions here in Washington D.C. Our message, our Republican message, is very different, one that the Governor of Texas tonight and every time he speaks articulates for us so well; that is, we should not be trusting of the bureaucrats in Washington. We should be trusting of the teachers who actually know the name of the children.”