Chaka Fattah: “The difference is is that getting teachers in that are competent, that understand their field.”

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.

We have a program that works. It works in rural communities and urban communities.

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 have arrived at our final moment in this bill where my colleague from New York, who is an extraordinary Member, has a very important amendment to offer. I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Jeffries