Chaka Fattah: “It could be worse than that. Us and votes, you know.”

We at one point had a lot of back and forth.

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

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.

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…