Chaka Fattah: “I think we should be rewarding employees as much as we need them, because we cannot afford to lose them.”

That in the Nixon school finance commission, in its summary, it said that as long as we have a property-based funded school system, poor children in our country are going to disproportionately fail.

Your leadership has been extraordinary.

This is a special day. This is probably the first day that I would have preferred to have been a member of the chairman's committee rather than of the Appropriations Committee. The committee should be congratulated for its great work on…

We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world producing college-educated adults.