Mark Souder: “I try to be generous to the President when possible. In physical education he got an A. He is an excellent golfer and a…”

“I try to be generous to the President when possible. In physical education he got an A. He is an excellent golfer and a jogger. No comment beyond that. In attendance, we have had an attendance problem. We have a serious attendance problem. He spent 153 days this year traveling, 32 for vacation, 57 for fund-raisers and other extraneous events. He has only held two cabinet meetings so clearly we have a focus and attention problem. Just out of the kindness of my heart, we did not put a conduct rating up. In fact, the question is what exactly would you write in a conduct. It would be very hard if you were his teacher to give him a conduct rating. But given all this, you would think that this would persuade him that he should be against national testing, because with a national test he himself would not be able to pass.”