Chaka Fattah: “We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world…”

I authored it some 17 years ago. Millions of young people have benefited.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment even though my opposition is not as apparent as it might otherwise be. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

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

I would be happy to concur with the chair's every utterance on this amendment that we will work together and help facilitate what I think is a very righteous effort on behalf of Congressman Jeffries to protect the rights of all Americans…