Political Quotes

“I have been wanting to give the gentlewoman from D.C. an extra $12 million a year. All the gentlewoman has to do is help me. All she has to do is get the special education funding that the gentlewoman's side promised 23 years ago, and we would give her an extra $12 million every year. Boy, could the gentlewoman ever reduce class size; could the gentlewoman ever do a lot of repairs. She could do all sorts of things with that $12 million. The important thing is that the changes are being made under existing law. All the scores that have gone up in Texas have gone up under the school-wide effort. That is the beauty of it. We are pulling everybody up. So we do not need any changes because it is now working. So, again, I would ask everyone to oppose this amendment, allow Texas to continue to raise African American students 11.9, when the State average is only 11.4; Hispanic students 9.4, the average is only 9.2; the economically disadvantaged student, 10.3, the average is only 10.”