Joe Crowley: “the one thing I think I would like to say is that it is heartening to know, I guess to a degree, that a Yankee from New…”

“the one thing I think I would like to say is that it is heartening to know, I guess to a degree, that a Yankee from New York and a southern gentleman from North Carolina share similar concerns and have similar problems as well in terms of overcrowding and old school buildings, but also on these issues that the gentleman from North Carolina is talking about. This is universal. This is not a New York issue. This is not a California issue. It is not a North Carolina issue. It is not a Democratic from the party sense, it is not a Democrat or Republican issue, it is really an American issue. It is an issue we all have to grapple with and we should all be working on, not trying to, as the gentleman said before, to create one-up-one-upmanship. This is something we should all be working on together. If one asks the average Member here, I think everyone would be in agreement, I think they agree 100 percent, these are the things that we believe are lacking right now. I do not see politics coming into play here. It is common sense to me. This is all pure common sense. It is my hope doing these special orders and talking about the legislation of the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Etheridge) and other bills as well, like the Rangel-Etheridge School Construction and Modernization bill, again, to me, it is not about politics. Children do not know Democrat or Republican, they are just learning about it.…”