Political Quotes

“Yielding for a question. As my colleague must be aware--and this is in the form of a question, Mr. President--we have had the word ``comparable'' on the books regarding school districts for 36 years. The law has said that within school districts, educational opportunity must be comparable. Is it not true, I ask my friend from New Hampshire, that magnet schools, charter schools, and science schools have all functioned within school districts with a Federal law that has required or mandated comparable educational opportunity? I am not changing that. I am just extending the geography from school districts to States. I am not applying any new standards from those that have existed in the law for more than three decades.”