We have got to put more into early learning.

The State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) in particular has been one of the great success stories of the ARRA.

Maybe it starts when you are born.

I am encouraged by your, I think, statement of support for a jobs, an education jobs bill.

Given this and similar situations across the country, we need to help avoid I believe what you termed earlier, Senator Harkin, the cliff.

We are borrowing too much from our kids and grandkids.

We have a real cliff problem right now.

When it comes to resources, it is a time of both great promise and great peril.

We must remember that education begins at birth and that preparation for education begins before birth.

We have got to do both, and we can't let up on one or the other.

I look forward to working with you to see how we can shoehorn this in some way.

As Chairman Harkin has pointed out, there are 2,000 high schools where graduation is not the norm when it needs to be a necessity.

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