Lateefah Simon: “But I surely don’t want to hear his racist, misogynist rhetoric.”

It is without apology that when you write legislation that cuts into the flesh of the working poor, you cannot call it policy. When you cut into the flesh of working-class Americans, you don't call it policy. You call it what it is…

I rise today in defense of every child in this Nation who deserves to enter into a classroom and be treated with dignity, care, and respect. In writing these remarks, I thought of my kindergarten teacher, Ms. Jasko at Claire Lilienthal…

they’re cheating Americans out of a functioning budget…willing to cut cancer research…school classrooms with 60 kindergarteners.

They’re cheating Americans out of a functioning budget…willing to cut cancer research…school classrooms with 60 kindergarteners.