Lamar Alexander actually said...

States have to fix them year after year after year, and at the point of spend we are at right now...

States must balance budgets annually, unlike the federal government.

02/12/2013

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Senator Bennet and I and Booker and Burr suggested it be two questions because that is the testimony we heard from almost everybody.

A lot of Senators wanted some new programs and they did not get them because we eliminated 49 programs.

So the Congress specifically said equitable resolution and left that to university administrators and boards and others to resolve.

We had a consensus that it needed to be fixed, and our consensus was, while we wanted the reporting requirements on test results, we wanted ...