Roy Blunt actually said...

"I guess one of my biggest concerns with the budget submitted is that it appears to be well beyond the amount of money that the law would currently allow us to spend on these issues."

"People like me, who are the first person in their family to graduate from college, often have a different set of aspirational goals and a sense of what college might mean to them."

"I am, certainly, always more receptive to those things we do that encourage local school districts to try things, rather than to tell them that they have to do things that apply all over the country."

"I hope we can work together to find common ground of prioritizing, even in the early stages of marking up the budget, the kinds of things you believe and we agree would have the most impact on making ..."