Richard Shelby actually said...

"I am concerned, and I am sure you are, that the 2012 budget proposal does not request funding for the mathematics and science partnership program."

"The Federal Government, I believe, should give States the flexibility to implement critical reforms as identified on the State and local level."

"It is unacceptable to all of us."

"The unsustainable growth in the costs of the Pell Grant program continues to be an anchor dragging down the entire budget for the Department of Education."