Barbara Boxer: “It seems to me, with both Presidential candidates out there talking about education, and with huge differences in the…”

“It seems to me, with both Presidential candidates out there talking about education, and with huge differences in the two positions; where you have George Bush supporting a voucher system to pull money out of the public schools into the private schools, and you have Al Gore saying he wants to do twice as much for education; in terms of budget authority, where you have Vice President Gore supporting putting 100,000 new teachers in the classroom and George Bush opposing it; where you have our Vice President supporting school construction, and these are all initiatives that emanated from this side of the aisle with opposition on the other side. A fair debate.”