Political Quotes

“Every now and then I hear reports that is a ``do-nothing Congress.'' Well, I want to tell my colleagues a little bit about this committee. It is anything but a do-nothing committee. Just to tick off a few off the top of my head, we reauthorized IDEA Special Ed; we reauthorized Head Start, it is in conference; we reauthorized Higher Education; we passed Dollars to the Classroom; we passed Bilingual Reform; we passed the Testing Prohibition bill; we passed the Emergency Consolidation Loan Bill and bailed out the Department. We passed the National Committee on College Costs; we passed the Equitable Child Care resolution. We passed the Job Training bill for the 21st century. We authorized Vocational Education for the 21st Century. We passed the Charter School bill; we passed the Reading Excellence bill; we passed the Juvenile Justice bill, and we passed the Child Nutrition bill. It does not sound like a ``do-nothing Congress'' to me, at least not a do-nothing committee. This is a ``do-everything'' committee for the benefit of all, and particularly for young people in this country.”