Todd Russell Platts: “Well, maybe we need to shame these States into doing a better job of protecting the American people's money.”

If the gentlelady will yield, I would add it's been a great privilege to serve with you here and to travel. You'll enjoy a story from that trip when we were visiting the Special Forces in the Philippine Islands. This past September, I was…

I was opposed to the bill in total, I don't want to dismiss or contend that there are not aspects of it that I think are wise and good policy going forward.

And public education, and one of our colleagues who we both had the privilege to serve under when he was chair of our committee as well.

If we have extra money let's keep our word first to the public schools.