George Miller: “I say to the gentleman, you know, you brought up the California desert. That was already Federal land. We changed the…”

Let's identify the problems. Let's pass a lean bill and fix No Child Left Behind.

Let's just fix the problems with it. Let's don't start from scratch and rewrite the whole law.

The approach we have put forward, which is backed by business and labor leaders, will secure the multiemployer pension system for millions of current and future retirees' inputs.

I'm afraid that an awful lot of time and motion is being wasted trying to give the appearance of reform instead of actually making real, structural changes.