Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We owe our kids at least a system in which they have a meaningful and equitable opportunity to learn."

"To abandon accountability... is to accept the status quo of inequity in student outcomes."

"Federal requirements, and the State bureaucracies that are necessary to help implement them, have far too significant a footprint."

"I do want to, with unanimous consent of all present, put into the record a combination press release and letter issued by the ranking member of the committee, actually inviting the Republican witnesse..."