Chris Dodd: “I suggest to my colleagues, Mr. President, that we are talking about $1.6 billion that will go toward education in this…”

“I suggest to my colleagues, Mr. President, that we are talking about $1.6 billion that will go toward education in this case. I think having a healthy debate about where those resources go is something that the country would like to hear. Whether or not we want it to support building up the deteriorating schools that our colleague from Illinois, Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, proposes, or deal with classroom size, which Senator Murray proposes, or whether or not we want to go into special education, these are legitimate issues about how you allocate scarce resources. I applaud the efforts of our leader and, hopefully, we can get some accommodation so we can have a good, healthy debate.”