Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"So there is an immediate value to spending in either direction in terms of economic recovery, but the long-term value is for the spending that is on infrastructure that creates a lasting asset."

"I hope that you keep in your heart, as you go about your job, these teachers and these local school administrators who are feeling stifled and frustrated by this compliance-driven regime that they are..."

"The education oversight establishment as a collective creature has become so burdensome that it is now interfering with classroom teachers' ability to manage their classrooms."

"I hope that for folks who are watching this is really seen as an object lesson as to the vulnerability that we all have to a whole variety of Internet penetrations."