Political Quotes

“let me begin by saying that it is the wisdom of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Goodling) that has brought us to this point. I remember 2 years ago on the floor of the House I came up to the gentleman and said, if we could do one thing for education that would really make a difference, what would that be? He said, ``Fully fund special education,'' and I have been a soldier in that army ever since. Madam Speaker, the times that I feel best about being a Member of Congress are the times when, first off, we take serious actions that actually affect real people in very real ways. And secondly, it is a time when we kind of transcend the usual partisanship that prevails so often in the House. We transcend the notion that for one of us to win our agenda, somebody else has to lose and we have to do battle here for competing interests. Fully funding special education meets both of those tests. It meets the test of really helping Americans who need it and also we can do it in a win/win fashion.”