Thomas A. Garrett: “I am sick of watching kids fail based on their ZIP Code.”

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

I will consider myself a historian and some lessons are written large on the pages of history, if we are only willing to listen.

These promises of fairness manifest themselves in the uniform distribution of poverty and suffering.

I would submit that the North Korean regime from 1950 has a history of making a promise and then breaking a promise.