Tom Harkin actually said...

"The Federal role in education is really relatively narrow."

"The Americans with Disabilities Act, one of your crowning achievements, is truly our Nation's emancipation proclamation for students with disabilities."

"The law's goal was to give families and the general public the data they needed to assess whether students in a given school were being taught the reading and math skills they needed to be successful."

"We're overdue in doing our job and taking a look at the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and reauthorizing it for another period of time."