I know your deep interest in this, and strong feelings about it.
I don't think President Obama's made a better appointment than Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education.
Education is the key to unlocking the potential of our children.
I think the intent, here, is--I hope--is simply to say, 'We want to make sure that the charter schools are working.'
I think maybe there was some feeling that, 'Well, if they ask these questions, then they're going to ask more questions.'
I think it would be very reasonable.
the D.C. voucher program has proven to be the most effective education policy evaluated by the Federal Government's official education resea...
I appreciate the way you conducted the last hearing, you and Senator Collins.
Chancellor Rhee, who says she'd like to continue this three-pronged approach for 5 years.
I think that's a line of inquiry I'd like to hear more about today.
Maybe we ought to change that and say that we think that accreditation is not optional for private schools.
But, no, you're not required to be accredited.
I assure you there are plenty of hucksters around this world that will figure out a way to take that in.
I would call it a scheme, or in the event there's a carbon tax that at least one principle we ought to adhere to is that not any of that lea...
But you--but it is to raise the price--raising the price of carbon----
I think it points to, especially in this time of tremendous distrust of Washington, that we've earned fairly, this whole Rube Goldberg notio...
I think it's wrong to assume that the cap and trade is really complicated and the tax is going to be really simple.
So I'd just like to point out to the committee what that means in code. Is thanks to CRS giving us these great definitions, is that we are t...