Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, for anybody to come down to this House and indicate that we have a do-nothing Congress when it comes to education has to have been sleeping for the last 2 years. We just had a love-in down at the White House a couple of days ago, what a love-in about education and all the things we have done. We have passed 21 pieces of legislation that deal with education and job training. Let me tell you about some of the most important ones, a lot of them done in a bipartisan fashion. We passed Head Start. We did not just pass the usual same old Head Start. We said we are going to have quality Head Start. We are going to make sure that every child in this country has an equal opportunity to become reading ready before they get to first grade and before they get stuck into special education. We passed a special education bill, we passed a job training bill; not Washington knows all and Washington can do everything. We said the local level knows what is important and what has to be done to train people for the 21st century. We passed a vocational education bill, not again one that talks about the 19th century, but what it is we do if we are going to be competitive in the 21st century. We passed a child nutrition bill. We passed a higher education bill that gives the lowest interest rates in 17 years. It gives the highest Pell grants. It gives quality teaching.”