Political Quotes

“If my colleague will yield, because the other thing that we know is we know what the difference is. In your model, it goes directly from the taxpayer, it can go directly down to the school district. We eliminate all this and we save that 33 percent. Actually what we do is we double it. We take the dollar, and rather than taking the dollar in this model where it shrinks it down to 67 cents, what we do in that model is we take the dollar and we multiply it to two, so it is a great contrast. If the gentleman will leave the chart up for just a second because the other contrast is, you and I have worked pretty hard over the last 4 or 5 years, I think we have finally made some progress now that we have a new administration, but for a number of years the money going into this system could not be tracked. We did not know where it went. This organization right here, the Department of Education, could not get a clean audit. They could not tell us where the money went. There were all kinds of cases of waste, fraud and abuse, well documented. I think at last count, 18, 21 people are pleading guilty and have been sentenced for the crimes that they have committed but the accountability system really was not here. With Secretary Paige and all that, we are very optimistic that they are going to get a clean audit so they can tell us exactly where that 33 percent goes and we will be able to determine whether we have value or not. But we are not threatening this system.…”