Johnny Isakson

I tried 2 years ago when we brought this subject up to bring up an idea of alternative assessment where the assessment of special needs children... would be a test chosen in the IEP by the parent and the faculty member.

When we disaggregated kids, we disaggregated them with disabilities as well--by race, by language, by learning level, but also by disabilities.

Thank you for your service to the country.

I think nobody has mentioned it yet, but your work with India... proved to be very successful.

I appreciate that, because that is very important to my State of Georgia.

What can be done with China, through the WTO or through any agreements we might otherwise have...

You have to be very careful when you change the treatment of taxation mid-investment, when it is already made.

But I think one of the things the Federal Government could do to help the schools out is give them the excuse that we're making them do it, but make sure the curriculum and the alignment of testing, whatever assessment model you use, are…

Assessment was very important, disaggregation was more important, and focusing on the individual student was most important, and No Child Left Behind did that.

You know, if this works, we're going to be in trouble in 6 years, because it'll be impossible for schools to maintain AYP because it's going to get harder and harder and harder to do.

One thing I learned as State board chairman in Georgia is that if your testing is not aligned with your curriculum, you're never going to get good data.

I've always felt that the teacher was best--and the teacher and the parent and the IEP were best to decide what kind of assessment the child ought to have.

I think it is a great example of how the Iranians continue to test the JCPOA and that, in the face of non-enforcement, the Iranians will know that they have a green light to continue to push at the international community and see what they…

I want to make sure we are getting as much oversight out of Congress as possible, so if there is cheating going on, we can detect it as soon as possible.

We know that. In your opening statement, Mr. Nephew, you state in there that the risk of them cheating is not zero.

I am glad you all took the time you did to expand on it, because my big concern is the Iranians will cheat.

I did not vote for the deal either, and I share some of the eloquently expressed concerns of Senator Risch.

We want to make sure we never revisit that chapter in history.

If my math is right, that is a number of tons of nuclear-enriched material.

What Senator Menendez has said he wants to do would probably be the appropriate thing for the Congress to do.

We finally got a hold of some sanctions money in the Paribas settlement, which the Department of Justice has, which is the money we are compensating those hostages from.

The emotional relief for those 43 surviving hostages of that ordeal is not expressible in words.

Yesterday afternoon, the surviving hostages from the American embassy in Iran learned that this Congress will compensate for them in the omnibus bill we will take up later on this week.

I think ultimately they will need to come back. They are the ones that need an agreement.

I think it is a false choice.