Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"one of the reasons we took this step was to get rid of the scourge of testing of schools that was so badly deforming the behavior of schools"

"I just don't think they're the only ones."

"The principle of this is that there can be a process of alignment where the municipality, the Federal Government agrees that it will step out and let innovation happen..."

"These rules, in your view, are obstacles?"