Chaka Fattah: “I would also work with the chairman on this matter to make sure this is fully reviewed and investigated.”

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…

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.

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.

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 I ask unanimous consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed…