On the recordMay 11, 2004
Most American families, I think, realize that people spend money on the things they value. They do that in their homes and they do that in the United States Congress. We are steadily walking away from commitments that are decades-long commitments to improving the quality of our educational system, improving the quality of health care. We made a commitment, or our predecessors did, because none of us were here. Not a single one of us voted on Leave No Child Behind. But before we got here in this institution, this House passed a bill called Leave No Child Behind and made a commitment to improve education in this country. That commitment has never been funded adequately. It has never been funded to set the original vision that was laid out. And on health care, the prescription drug bill that all four of us voted against, incidentally, last November, this is a bill which has an enormous price tag.
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