Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"when you are terrorizing a school into limiting its curriculum only to what is on some test that came in from often, as you said, a vendor out of State, that is hardly serving the children, the school..."

"One of the goals that we had in this Committee in the ESSA bill was to lift the load of testing off schools."

"the purpose of the exercise is not to walk away from these kids and fail to keep track of their success."

"Thanks, Chairman. As I think I've done in each one of these hearings, let me thank you and Ranking Member Murray for the bipartisan way..."