Cord Byrd: “I want to thank him for his work on the Armed Services Committee. And I want to thank him for his leadership in making…”

“I want to thank him for his work on the Armed Services Committee. And I want to thank him for his leadership in making laws that will better prepare our young people for the future, for what lies ahead of them. Of course, we need better educated people in our Armed Forces. Of course, we have to have better educated people if we are going to keep this country as the superpower of the world. I want to thank him for what he has done in this respect. I know he must feel very proud of the record that has been established by his schools up there, to which he referred a little while ago. Those performances were in English and math. They are not easy subjects, as I recall--not the easiest. But there is no subject matter that is more important than that of English, grammar, mathematics. He must feel justly proud of the performance those schools have made, that has been made possible, to a considerable extent, by his work on this legislation.”