Tom Harkin actually said...

I think if you were to ask the average person on the street, say, 'Do you know about Head Start?' 'Oh, yeah. Everybody's heard of Head Start...

the President's plan would not--let me be clear--would not be a new Federal entitlement program or a new Federal mandate.

We must return to the practice of marking up our appropriations bills, debating them on the Senate floor.

This has been going on for the last 20-some years, where States keep providing us less.