"Let us start teaching our kids earlier how to read, write and add. That might be a good start."
"They are really good at understanding how to control the language."
"Equity says no, you come with the right color, you come with the right ideology, and you got the job."
"This is the most divisive concept that we have ever seen, and it is truly a cancer."
"We believe in fairness. And just recently we have a couple of my good friends, Kate Hall and Keith Grover, who will introduce legislation to ban DEI from our educational systems."
"Would you agree with--I will get to what the question is, what is the priority of education? The child or the institution?"
"If the public schools are failing, let us get rid of them. If charter schools are failing, let us get rid of them."
"It has really been very rewarding to hear how as a bipartisan process we are going to address this."
"Thank you so much for this important hearing today."
"Is there anything to be done to understand that there is a new way of trying to service customers?"
"While there is no shortage of crises in this body to address, few are more pressing than keeping airlines flying, passengers safe, flightcrews on time, and air traffic control towers functional."
"Congress owes it to the nearly 3 million American passengers who travel every day to get this bill over the finish line."