Al Franken: “I wish to thank the ranking member. We talk on the phone about this. We have talked over dinner about this bill. I wish…”

“I wish to thank the ranking member. We talk on the phone about this. We have talked over dinner about this bill. I wish to thank Senator Alexander, whom I asked to come to his office. We spent a very substantive session talking exactly about how I saw this--what was wrong with No Child Left Behind and how we could essentially get rid of it and solve what it is that every teacher hates about it and what principals hate about it and what superintendents hate about it. Senator Alexander and I had some disagreements on things. But, man, I think we agreed on 80 percent of this. I think I had an 80-percent agreement--I mean, that is Senator Enzi's rule. He has this 80-percent rule, which is that we agree on 80 percent and we focus on the 20 percent. I have a 64-percent rule which is that 80 percent of the time we agree on 80 percent. We see that Senator Bennet laughed because he is proficient at math.”