Mark Souder: “Yes. Mr. Speaker, he is moving so fast, it is hard to tell when it is an actual pivot. Mr. Speaker, then what happened…”

“Yes. Mr. Speaker, he is moving so fast, it is hard to tell when it is an actual pivot. Mr. Speaker, then what happened this year, he sent down a series of proposals, as he does regularly, to try to nationalize education. Because his philosophy of education is that, unless he does something, nothing is happening in education, unless it comes out of the President. When he was governor, it had to come out of the governor. But now that he is President, it has to come out of the President. As they propose these different things, the Democrats did not even pick them up. We heard very little about it in the Committee on Education and the Workforce; occasionally a whine here or there, occasionally a whine on the floor. But basically his policies just lay in state almost. We went through several major pieces of legislation, the higher education bill, where we worked and wound up with a bipartisan bill that has many important parts to it that was signed last week. We just completed and passed through a bill to reauthorize Head Start, community services block grant, and other things. We have been working for 4 years trying to get compromises on vocational education and job training legislation. We did Dollars to the Classroom through here. We have been moving education bills, as has been pointed out today numerous times, 25 different bills in this 2-year term. We have been moving education bills, and the President basically signs them.…”