Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I think it is really important, as we just heard in this hearing, education is transformative. It is the key to changing the status of women."

"If you are going to have education you got to have opportunity that goes with it."

"To what extent does the promise of education get dashed on the shoals of other cultural barriers?"

"For one thought of a way to do this without tremendous expense would just be to take expired textbooks here in the United States that are effective texts, ship them back in some of the empty shipping ..."