Chaka Fattah: “I thank the gentlelady, and I thank her for her leadership in this House and her own extraordinary career that continues…”

An amendment was passed, King No. 077, and passed by a voice vote. I requested a recorded vote. I ask unanimous consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed…

Your leadership has been extraordinary.

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.

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.