Political Quotes

“I want to thank her and ask her a question. Does the Senator not agree with me that we owe a real debt to Senator Wyden of Oregon, because the force of his desire to make education better resulted in a bipartisan agreement to bring an education bill to the floor? In doing so, I want to make it clear, because he and I have spoken, while we all agree with him that this is a good program, there have been many waivers passed on by Secretary Riley because he, too, agrees that Ed-Flex is working. This is a golden opportunity that he has given us to flesh out this bill, to make it even better. I say to the Senator from Washington, she worked so hard to get 100,000 teachers into the classroom and reduce class sizes. We worked together on these issues to get afterschool funds to the school districts who wanted so much. Last year, there were $540 million worth of requests for afterschool programs. We only had $40 million. This year, the President wants to have the money to accommodate all those local districts.”