Chaka Fattah: “I sincerely believe that this is one of the areas where there is real opportunity for bipartisan work.”

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.

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.

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 I ask unanimous consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed…

Your leadership has been extraordinary.