Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a copy of my remarks to the American Council on Education. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Higher Education Reauthorization I am here today to read you a letter and ask for your help. I'm going to be very specific. First, I want to thank Chancellors Kirwan and Zeppos for the work they've done with others at the request of four United States senators: two Democrats and two Republicans, Senator Mikulski and Senator Bennett on the Democratic side and Senator Burr and myself on the Republican side. We asked them to not give us a sermon but to give us specific recommendations for exactly what to do about the problem of overregulation of higher education, and they've done that. The English professors on your campuses would be very pleased with it because it's actually recommended in plain English with mostly declarative sentences. It's an unusual report. It's very well done. And the way things work in Washington, it reminds me a lot of the report called ``Rise Above Gathering Storm'' that the National Academy of Sciences sponsored about ten years ago, and Norm Augustine headed it. We basically said, ``Just give us ten specific things to do, and if you do, we'll probably do most of them.'' They gave us 20 recommendations, and we've done most of them.…”