Chaka Fattah: “I want to welcome our witnesses and thank each and every one of them for their appearance here today.”

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 I ask unanimous consent that my request for a recorded vote on the amendment that it be withdrawn and allow the voice vote on which it passed…

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

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…