Political Quotes

“Fine. I will take just another minute and a half of the 2 minutes of which I asked. Just to summarize the point here, there are a lot of good ideas that come out of Washington, DC. We provide money for them. But we should not presume that everything we come up with here fits every single school district in the country. There may be needs in one area that are not shared in another area; whereas one school district may need teachers, another school district may say, down the road we may need to hire more teachers, but what is more needed is a better math program or a better history program or whatever it might be. We ought to give them that chance--that is all the Gorton amendment says--instead of saying they can only spend the money on one thing. The Gorton amendment provides that they can spend the money on a variety of things. The application is simple. They simply set their goals, and a year later they demonstrate whether they have met their goals. If they have, they can re-up for the money. If they have not, they cannot. So it is a very goal-oriented program, and they are the ones who set the goals. I urge my colleagues to support the Gorton amendment to the Murray amendment.”