Lincoln Chafee: “I oppose the constitutional ban on states -- states allowing gay marriage. Principles of a just war.”

I thank the Chair. I share Senator Kennedy's thoughts of prayer and peace for Senator Inouye. My thoughts are with the Inouye family.

If she were willing to negotiate, listen to someone like Lincoln Chafee, who is a former senator from our state, who stood out in front of our school yesterday and said he would mediate, then maybe we could resolve this instead of causing…

Does the Senator hear from his school committees and local councilmen about the rising costs of special education and the difficulty that places on the property tax payer?

I call this amendment the Property Tax Relief Amendment of 2006. This amendment moves funding of IDEA to 20 percent of the cost of a municipality, only 20 percent of the promised 40-percent goal set in 1975. Schools account for the…