Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?

My belief is that solving that problem with cuts while in a recession has been proven by experience to be a failed strategy.

The testing has just run wild--to use their word--run wild in the classroom.

I suspect we all agree that a school that is dealing with a population with a very high concentration of poverty has a real problem on its h...