Bob Schaffer: “The scenario you just described, for those who do not get to see the inside of the political process like we do on the…”

“The scenario you just described, for those who do not get to see the inside of the political process like we do on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, it is really disgusting sometimes when we start talking about school funding through the bureaucratic model. What happens is somebody will offer an amendment in the committee to change some aspect of the finance mechanism, and the staff hands out computer runs of all 50 States and how this change will affect the different States and the different programs in each of these States, and every Member of Congress that serves on these committees, as the person who offers the amendment is speaking, we are all shuffling through the graph trying to follow the line. In the State of Colorado does this amendment give my State more money or take money away? That is the basis for the vote. But the kid does not matter. There are no names of children associated with that. There are no faces associated with that. It is just accounting.”