Political Quotes

“I hope, along with the majority leader, we can get quickly to the consideration of this important legislation because, as he correctly noted, once we begin debate on this bill and have an opportunity to vote on it, it is going to receive overwhelming support from Members on both sides of the aisle in the Senate. I want to speak for a moment on an amendment which I intend to offer, but before I do that, I commend the Senator from Georgia, Mr. Coverdell, for his work on S. 1134. He has made a valiant effort, over a long period of time, to bring reform to our educational system. He particularly wants to give all parents more choice in deciding where to send their children and to give them more of their own money with which to do so, or perhaps I should say to allow them to keep more of their own money in order to have those choices.”