it is kind of interesting, the gentleman brings up the judicial pronouncements, and they have been going on since the early 1960s with school prayer, and there has been a very serious unintended consequence. I was at a school in Michigan…

To have the opportunity to have this dialogue about empowering parents, empowering parents to give them a bigger role in the education of their children, there are a number of methods now that States are employing to create a dramatic…

That is exactly the point. What happens when we pass legislation out of Washington that empowers Washington, that gives them more authority, it means that people at the local level have to spend more time focusing on Washington…

the gentleman may want to just explain for folks exactly how the tax credits work. How is this tax credit different perhaps than a voucher system that is maybe being used in some other States? Then we can talk a little bit about the…

if the gentleman will once again yield, that is one of the ironies here. The gentleman is right. Many in Washington would say that the Congress functions as their school board, and yet we do spend somewhere upwards of $12,000 per student…

Well, I have spent a lot of time trying to find a common ground between the various forms of education in Michigan, whether it is home school, private schools, a charter school, or a public school, recognizing that each one of these plays…

Compliance means you adhere to the rules, but it also means your focus has changed from where it needs to be, which is educating the child to complying with the rules. And the teachers and principals at the local levels want to focus on…

This is not an issue of money. We are spending a tremendous amount on education, but we are spending a tremendous amount of it in the wrong place, and it is partly because parts of the No Child Left Behind, that never made it into law, was…

there have been, what, 21,000 students in the State of Arizona who have been able to take advantage of a scholarship to attend a school of their choice; but there have also been significant amounts of money that have flowed back into the…

I think this is what I really want to reinforce because I think it is also a model that I would hope that we would consider here in Washington; and more importantly, I am hoping that it is a model that we will consider in the State of…

We passed a bill here a couple of years ago that entitled dollars to the classroom because we did a survey of the Education Department. We found that the Education Department and the other Federal agencies had over 760 different specific…

The funding from Washington may not necessarily be all that bad if there was balance. But what we have done is we have funded bureaucracy, bureaucracy which has written more rules and more regulations for local school districts. We have…

there is not much I can add to Daniel Webster or the gentleman's rendition of Daniel Webster. On occasion I have an opportunity to give a tour of the Capitol at night. One of the places I go to is the other body. I go to the desk that was…

This is $100 million voluntarily, correct? This is not $100 million where the legislature in Arizona passed a new tax and said we are upping our sales tax by half a percent or changing the income tax? This is $100 million that people…

I experienced some of the same stuff when I met with the Iraqi people. They are learning the ability to speak out, because under Saddam Hussein, if they had spoken out, they would be dead. So they are aggressive, and sometimes you kind of…

during much of the 1990s this was done on a bipartisan basis, which is maybe different than what we see today; but here is Vice President Gore talking on May 23, 2000: ``The classic challenges of war and peace, of course, extend beyond…

It is the same experience I had. In September I had the opportunity to spend a day with one of my constituents who is kind of heading up the healthcare rebuilding in Iraq, Jim Hoveman. I spent the day, and we went through one of the…

some ask, are you winning the war on terror, and the level of violence in Iraq is something that we are very, very disappointed in. But the gentleman is absolutely right. We should not be surprised. There was a letter that we intercepted…

I mean, whether it is in Afghanistan where they were under the control of the Russians and the Taliban for 12 years and their per capita income is $150, where they do not have the rule of law, they do not have police agencies in place…

there is no doubt we are making progress. I want to read a couple of quotes from a speech that we heard in Libya. And if it becomes the role for the Middle East, we will have made great progress. Think about this quote. This is one of the…

I think the quotes go well on to other folks in 2000. So this is a continuing story of intelligence. As we move through this process, on a bipartisan basis, this is what we believed the threat was to the United States. One of the things…

what we know is through the 1990s, there was a consensus that there was a war on terrorism that was being fought, that there were issues dealing with Iraq and dealing with Saddam Hussein. It was not only the President; it was the Clinton…

We join in expressing our sympathy to the government and the people of Spain for the loss that they suffered today and reaffirm our commitment to the people of Spain that we will continue to work and fight with them in this war on…

What we forget is the rich tradition of Iraq. I do not know whether you have got it, but I have some things that have been posted on the Internet by folks who recount the history of this part of the world. It is a rich cultural heritage…

Right. And we knew that he used these weapons, and so he had them at one time. The interesting thing about what Vice President Gore said in May of 2000, ``We have made it clear that it is our policy to see Saddam Hussein gone,'' that…