Political Quotes

“we are all in agreement that Congress absolutely needs to work together to finally fix the broken No Child Left Behind law for our students, our teachers, our parents, and the communities in my home State of Washington and across the country. Today we will have the chance to take another step forward toward that goal. As the Presiding Officer heard from our chairman, Senator Alexander, since February of this year, he and I have worked together on a bipartisan education bill that would remove the harmful one-size-fits- all mandates of No Child Left Behind, while also including Federal guardrails to make sure all of our students have access to a quality education. We improved on our bipartisan bill in the HELP Committee with the help of our colleagues and a number of amendments that were agreed to, and in July the Senate voted to pass that bipartisan bill with a vote of 81 to 17. The House also passed their bill in July. Since then, Chairman Alexander and I--as he just mentioned--have been working with House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman Kline and Ranking Member Scott.…”