Melvin Watt: “We ought to be here trying to do something about education, and, instead, the Republicans are trying to get out of town…”

“We ought to be here trying to do something about education, and, instead, the Republicans are trying to get out of town and go home. The education issue has been on the table all this year, ever since the President made his State of the Union address. They want to go home. They have not dealt with it. This is an issue that every single American understands. Every single American understands it. If we reduce the ratio of students to teachers, reduce that ratio, each single student gets more attention. Each single student gets more reading time. Each single student gets to relate to the teacher in a way that they can learn, and that is what this is all about. Let us fund education, and then we can go home.”