Political Quotes

“I suggested it was an end run around the difficulty in establishing vouchers. The fact is that three-quarters of the benefits under the education IRA... would go to people who are already enrolled in private schools. So it may not be a duck, but it certainly looks, talks, and walks like a duck. With respect to the need, I suggest to the Senator from Georgia... Georgia faces an $8.5 billion shortfall for school modernization... There is projected a 26.5-percent increase in this shortfall in the decade ahead. Georgia would be among the States to benefit from this particular provision. But the bottom line is that we have a choice between a plan that we know the President would support and sign, which would provide some 6,000 schools built or modernized and some 25,000 schools repaired, as opposed to the alternative, where we would have 198 schools built or modernized and none repaired. At the same time, we would be transferring funds that could be used to support public education that would be supporting private education.”