William F. Goodling: “We are here to support those teachers back there on the firing line, and we want to help them as they try to produce the…”

I pleaded with the President, and I said, he can talk about class size reduction, but if he does not have a quality teacher to put in that new classroom, I will guarantee it does not matter whether the teacher-to-pupil ratio is 12 to 1, 20…

New York City would get an extra $190 million if we were fully funding the 40 percent, and Los Angeles would get another $90 million. When we talk about class size reduction, when we talk about school maintenance, think what they could do…

First of all, the church cannot be a fiscal agent. They cannot, in our legislation, be a fiscal agent.

Over 25 years, $90 million a year for 25 years, that sounds like big money to me.