Judd Gregg

The President's $2.6 billion for teacher improvement and class size reduction will be available at the option of the local community under the TEA legislation, which is a very significant increase over last year's funding level.

We have similar problems in New Hampshire, and I agree with my colleague that we have a shortage of trained health care workers, particularly those providing services to our nation's elderly. If this problem is not addressed, the viability…

Aren't those two arguments inconsistent: To say that reconciliation could be used in one instance, no matter what the instance is, but, on the other side, it is inappropriate to use reconciliation at any time because of the nature of the…

I rise with my colleagues to express my deepest sympathy for Nancy and Paul's family. I had the great good fortune to come to the Senate with Paul Coverdell... He was always tactically two or three steps ahead of the rest of us.

Is it the position of the Senator that the Senate does not function under the English language?

If the Senator's position is he is willing to allow relevant amendments, then we can develop a unanimous consent request which says ``relevant amendments.'' Is that the Senator's position? The Senator just used the world ``relevant'' three…

I will not make that decision. The offer is very reasonable. We are willing to debate relevant amendments on education. There are a lot of relevant amendments on education that deal with guns. All you have to do is make it relevant and you…

I wonder if the Senator believes campaign finance and gun issues, which are not relevant to schools, are issues which we should have been debating on the ESEA bill or should we hold them for another agenda?

I want to speak about the issue of what is happening in Africa, specifically in Sierra Leone. Recently, I have become involved in this issue because, as chairman of the Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, we have…

I wanted to speak about Sierra Leone and especially about the attempts I have made to address this issue as chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary. The New York Times and a number of…

No. Under no circumstance was portability ever represented as a voucher, or ever represented as a voucher in committee. What I said was Straight A's could have been used by a State to qualify that it had set up a voucher program such as…

Why do we believe that? We believe it, first, because it is an unfunded mandate, but more important, because in our school districts across this country, that special-needs child and his or her parents are being put in the impossible…