Political Quotes

“I rise today to express my strong support for S. 1177, the Every Student Succeeds Act. This legislation sends the responsibility of educating our Nation's students back to where it belongs--with States and local communities. I wish to commend Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for their work to advance this legislation through a very ideologically diverse HELP Committee, which they did with a unanimous vote. The full Senate then had a vote. That vote was 81 to 17. Then we had a conference committee. We haven't had many conference committees. It was there that we met with the House of Representatives to iron out differences between the two bills, and that passed by a vote of 38 to 1. It has been a long time since we have had numbers like that record. In fact, it has been a long time since bills went to committee and had the opportunity to be amended in committee, and then went to the floor of the Senate and had the opportunity to be amended on the floor. Of course, it is even more unusual to have a conference committee--because it passed both Chambers--and come up with a 38-to-1 approval of the conference report, which is what is now before us. This is one of those instances where we get to vote for it or we get to vote against it. I am hoping that almost everybody votes for it, just as in these previous votes. We in Wyoming are very proud of our school system. We are proud of the way we support our students.…”