Chaka Fattah: “I think we have invested a great deal of money under the Chairman's leadership in trying to improve science education.”

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.

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.