Gerald Ford: “We are optimistic, of course, about winning Texas.”

I do not think anything is wrong with asking these local school districts that want this authority to rise up to the occasion and to be able to live up to these standards today. I would close by merely saying to all my colleagues in the…

I close on this: the addiction to soft money, all of us will be okay without it. We can find ways to pay for our golf tournaments, to pay for our resort visits. We can find ways to pay for all of those things we pay for with soft money now.

Why are we singling out this Federal facility? We really do not know the full scope of this issue and this precedent we are creating by preempting State law. The employees of Fort Campbell wherever they reside--benefit from services…

I will add that I am a little disturbed and concerned about three issues...there is an enormous gap between what we said we want to spend and what we actually intend to spend.