Tom Carper: “I am encouraged that the Secretary has promulgated a letter. I don't know to what extent it also bears an imprimatur of…”

“I am encouraged that the Secretary has promulgated a letter. I don't know to what extent it also bears an imprimatur of OMB and the senior folks in the White House. I am encouraged by the letter. The point I am trying to make is that we are uneasy in the first place about entering into some kind of agreement on the Senate floor, and then just seeing that dissipate in conference. In the administration's statement they don't even mention the $13 million for public and charter schools, which just further exacerbates our uneasiness.”