Political Quotes

“It is difficult to follow those bipartisan comments of our subcommittee chairman, and I do agree with him. But I think I can follow our leader and say that he is right, this is what the Republicans would have tried to do if we had been in charge, per se. What is different? I want you to understand that the substitute that is being offered is different in a couple of, I think, important ways. First and foremost, we realize fiscal reality, and so we do not authorize funding levels that we know we are never going to appropriate, by sending false hopes back home. That is why you will see that in most areas we literally, honestly, do such sums, but in recognizing those fiscal realities, we say perhaps it is important to make sure that more of that money goes back home to those schools and is used for the actual delivery of educational services rather than Federal or State bureaucracies, rather than rules, regulations, and reporting requirements.”