Chaka Fattah: “Therefore, it is my honor to ask for $500,000 in this fiscal year's budget for EAC's Brooklyn TASC Project.”

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.

Your leadership has been extraordinary.

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.