John Thune: “I think again it points to at least one of the issues that we are discussing here this evening, and have been for some…”

“I think again it points to at least one of the issues that we are discussing here this evening, and have been for some time, and that is how do we go about making sure that more education dollars get into the classroom where they are benefiting our young people and preparing them for the future. In South Dakota, we have taken some steps in terms of wiring the schools to bring technology, the high technology that is available to us today, to see that our kids are equipped so that when the time comes for them to transition into the workplace, they are ready for that. I think again that happens when you look in a very systematic, disciplined way at moving power and control out of the Federal bureaucracy, making the Federal bureaucracy smaller, the family budget bigger, the budget of schools and local and State governments; and I think that is something that all of us in the Chamber this evening are very interested in doing and seeing come to pass. I think it points again to the broad need in this country to address the real problems that real people are facing.”