Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thank you Madam U.S. Attorney and thank you for the meeting in my office.

That is taking all meaning out of the word 'mandatory.' It is replacing your and your colleagues' judgment for the judgment of folks who wrote the law.

Yes, I did. But it's not the teacher. It's not the principal. It's not the school. It's the parents' educational level?

We feel, down in the--on the Gulf Coast, that this creates unfair competition.

Thank you for your fine work and your team.

What is the Administration's strategy for 2015 to deal with this?

Congratulations on getting a little bit of a breakthrough at APEC on ITA.

Is there a second variable you would throw in there? Because that was not correlated with the teacher.

So you must have regression analysis within that. Can you give me your top four, actually give me the top two.

Now, with teachers, what are the top two variables?

Again, you find some improvement in mathematics, but otherwise, these highly motivated kids with great verbal skills are still little able to impact kids who are otherwise anchored down by a terrible family life or a less advantageous…

Right now the goal of the Administration in this negotiation has essentially been dumbed down to a year warning flag.

I think it is the leading, according to the State Department. That has not changed throughout this process, has it?

I'm not a teacher. Well, I am a teacher. I teach with a medical school, and so I have some experience.

At the end of the day, it is only Congress that can decide whether the trade agreement goes into effect or not.

Concern has been raised by some that Congress and the American people may not be adequately consulted during trade negotiations.

Senator Murphy is absolutely right, the cost of health care has been mitigated since before Obamacare, but it's continued under Obamacare.

I would say the school boards are doing the right thing by concentrating dollars in the classroom.