At the end of the day it is not about protecting the system... it is about giving our children an equal opportunity.
The essence of the program, Mr. Chairman, is in its name: Opportunity.
I hope it would make my colleagues, as we invest in this program, confident that there are statistically significant bot...
I cannot tell you the number of calls I have received from parents who are distraught.
To borrow a line from Malcolm X, we must educate our children 'by any means necessary.'
It takes three to tango here in the Congress--which is to say the President, the Senate, and the House--to get anything ...
This is not an ideological battle, it is a battle for civil rights.
I served on the D.C. Council for 12 years. I was chairman of the education committee. I am a lifelong Democrat.
We have had frustrating times the last few years as we have not succeeded in adding new students to this critically impo...
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is a resounding academic success.
I want to just touch on two quick things that people talk a little bit about in Connecticut.
As Admiral Mullen said a while ago, our national debt has become a national security problem, and, therefore, we have to...
It seems to me it is fair to say that the drawdown of our end strength, how many people we have in uniform, ought to be ...
To me, it is, after all is said and done, the first responsibility of our National Government, which is to protect our s...
Admiral Winnefeld, Joint Task Force (JTF)-North is the sole Department of Defense (DOD) organization tasked to support t...
the U.S. must maintain its nuclear deterrence capability and continue extended deterrence for the Republic of Korea (ROK...
I think if they do not stop, our credibility with them and a lot of others in the region, if not the world, is going to ...
I wish I could say that as you look at the U.S. Congress. I cannot quite say that at this moment, but they can look at t...
