Roy Blunt: “I am here today as we set aside this week as Teacher Appreciation Week. If every Member of this House, and if, in fact…”

“I am here today as we set aside this week as Teacher Appreciation Week. If every Member of this House, and if, in fact, the people who are gathered in the gallery today and the people who are watching on television would just take a minute to carefully reflect on the people that have affected their lives, they would determine, as they tried to pick out the three people that had had the most impact on their lives, I think very few Americans, even very few Members of this Congress, would determine that one of those people was the President of the United States or that one of those people was a Governor of a State or that one of those people was even a Member of Congress. I think the overwhelming majority of people in our country, and certainly in this House, would think of, as they thought of people that had affected their lives, they would think of a mother and a father, they would think of grandparents, a Sunday school teacher. Almost everybody, if asked to name three people, would name a teacher, would name a member of that profession whose job it is to really expand human potential. There is no greater calling.”