John Chenoweth: “as my colleagues know, education is a perfect example of an issue where liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans…”

“as my colleagues know, education is a perfect example of an issue where liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans disagree. For a liberal Democrat education is about one thing and one thing only. It is more money, more money, more money from Washington, D.C. Now last year they were here arguing for more money for education, and so we gave it to them. Education did not improve. The year before it was the same argument. We gave them more money. Education did not improve. And the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and every single year for the past 30 years. Mr. Speaker, my question for the liberals is at what point do they conclude that maybe, just maybe, it is not the money from Washington, D.C.? The answer, of course, is that it is not the money, and even the liberals know it. They have created more Federal bureaucracies, more Washington, D.C. programs of dubious value and more administrative extravagances. Education achievement has not improved, but that is no surprise at all.”