On the recordMarch 30, 2011
On the contrary, a letter is on its way up here from city council members. The present mayor opposes the bill. Yes, the former mayor was for the bill. The largest demonstration of citizens since I have been in the Congress was held when this bill was imposed on the District of Columbia. If you ask people in the District of Columbia, ``Would you support some Federal money for vouchers?'' a lot of them will say yes. If you ask them the right question, ``Would you want money for private school vouchers or would you want money for public charter schools?'' hands down, they will say, relieve those long waiting lists of all of us trying to get in our public charter schools and give the money to our public charter schools. Nobody on that side of the aisle knows anything about the residents of the District of Columbia or they never would have put this bill in in the first place.
