Jack Reed actually said...

"I would like to thank Senator Reed and the leadership of this Committee for literally years of work to restructure and modernize these programs to reflect over two decades of research and on-the-groun..."

"We have 12.7 percent unemployment, and as I said in a previous meeting, we have houses that are under water."

"We took the approach that unless we stabilize the entire system, put a floor in, and then begin to see them sort of work out their problems, we were going to collapse."

"principals have to be educational leaders not bus monitors, milk fund trustees."