First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.
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Lott discusses the upcoming election and the need for leadership in Congress regarding education priorities.
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The fact that we had a very aggressive program, try to keep up with what these people were doing, yes, I think this could be -- wind up being a winner and instead of a loser like some people might suspect.
We're going to go forward, trying to do our part, and we need to count on the administration, the airlines, the entire industry, to do their part.
However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.
A lot of it is because Republicans when they start talking don't talk about education. You have to talk about it. You have to go there, where they are.