T. Gorton said "I intend in just a moment to ask unanimous consent to modify the Dole second-degree amendment, to modify it in a manner which would turn it from a statute to a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. The most important, the vital part of what we are doing is really to express the views of this Senate to this National Education Standards and Improvement Council. It will do so in the fashion that I asked for. We will have a vote on it. The vote will be far more one-sided than it would have been on the original amendment, and I have every confidence that the National Standards Council will listen to what the Senate has to say. If it does not, any Member is free to bring up the subject at any future time. This will also help the progress of the underlying bill, S. 1, itself." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 18, 1995

I intend in just a moment to ask unanimous consent to modify the Dole second-degree amendment, to modify it in a manner which would turn it from a statute to a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. The most important, the vital part of what we are doing is really to express the views of this Senate to this National Education Standards and Improvement Council. It will do so in the fashion that I asked for. We will have a vote on it. The vote will be far more one-sided than it would have been on the original amendment, and I have every confidence that the National Standards Council will listen to what the Senate has to say. If it does not, any Member is free to bring up the subject at any future time. This will also help the progress of the underlying bill, S. 1, itself.

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T. Gorton

Republican · Washington

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing modifications to an amendment related to national education standards.

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