Trent Lott: “How about helping out families by letting them make the choice on how to use that money at the local level?”

A lot of it is because Republicans when they start talking don't talk about education. You have to talk about it. You have to go there, where they are.

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.

with regard to Senator Reid's comments, I don't see any problem with vitiating cloture on the so-called CHIP bill, H.R. 3963. If the leader would like to do that, I assume after consultation with Leader McConnell there wouldn't be any…

let me say again to the Senator from South Carolina who just left the Chamber, I appreciate the way he has approached this. He did not come in and condemn it; he looked at it. He had some ideas, and several of them have been accepted. I…