Frank Riggs: “I have to rebut this contention. I have to ask the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks] if he has had any personal…”

We are seeing a tremendous and I believe pent-up demand for more choice, more selection, if you will, in public education. We are beginning to see waiting lists created in charter schools around the country. Our legislation stipulates that…

That mandate is embedded in current law, and what we are trying to do now by proposing reforms to the Federal Bilingual and Immigration Education Acts is to give local school districts more say, more flexibility, more discretion, more…

I think someone has to challenge the statement of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers). Everyone does not do it. And for him to suggest that, I believe, is degrading and insulting. And the point, again, that I wanted to make here on…

I do not want people, our colleagues who might be following this debate, to labor under a false impression. Of course the Conference of Mayors, of course local officials, are going to go on record as opposing the amendment. They want as…