and that was cleared again with senator enzi and i. let's get the hearings out of the road and then this year we could focus on putting the bill together. so we had our hearings. i say to my friend, we brought in teachers, principals, superintendents from all over america. and then starting in january, we began a time-honored process whereby the chairman and ranking member started working on putting the bill together with our professional staff. that's why we have professional staff. senator alexander was in involved in that, other senators were brought in, senator bennet, senator franken, others on the republican side were brought in on that. i would say this, mr. president: the senator from kentucky had every day since he was sworn in in january to come to me or to go to senator enzi and say, i'm on the committee. here's what i would like in the bill. and that would have been considered. other senators did that. i see two of them sitting here right now who came and said, here's what i'd like to have in the bill. well, i sat down with

>> no. >> senator enzi? >> no. >> senator alexander? >> no. >> senator hatch? >> pass. >> senator mccain? >> no, by proxy someone >> senator roberts? >> no. >> senator kurt? >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> mr. chairman, i wish to be recorded as voting no. [inaudible conversations] >> senator burke? >> senator, i call up amendment two under title two. >> amendment number two. >> again, mr. chairman, i will try to be brief on this. today, we've heard a lot about equity, and the need for equity under the sea. at the same time, a lot of people around the table purport to support equity, and this reauthorization of elementary and secondary education, they've signed on to a bill that is often anything but equitable in the distribution of federal funds. one of these inequities is most evident in this bill's title two formula which continues to hold harmless provision funds on the basis of population numbers that are over a decade old. in the allocation of funds under title two, each state first receives an amount to the fy2001 grant under two programs. the eisenhower

i mean, that is senator enzi's that w role. he has an 80%e rule.nde which is we agree an 80% andshat refocus on the 20%. i have a 64% rule, which is 80% of the time we agree an 80%. and you see senator bennett laughed because he wasmr proficient at math. to him >> i did not the senator from kentucky want me to yield for at question to get involved in colloquy or not but the senator from north carolina. yield for i do not the senator from kentucky wanted me to yield.lado i'd be glad to do that. a >> yes, mr. president, i do have astio question. several senators have said they would abe happy to have means 4 hours a day. went away at the hearing on the bill?dents and finally many teachers, superintendents and principals?g there's been a hearing since the last election. there's no reason why we can't.u the other question you need to o answer is, twhat do you say to the american association of school administrators? elementary school and the the national school boards n seconda association and the national association of secondary

i think senator enzi said it correctly. senator bennet was one of the foremost superintendent of a major school system in this country. this would be the precisely the policy that such a superintendent should try to enact in his own school system or even in a state board of education. it is inappropriate for a national law because it creates a national school board with very specific, very specific and complex standards. when we created -- i do not know if we have the title one plan. as a matter of eliminating all of our discussions about title 1, the biggest part -- right here. the biggest part of the federal elementary and education act is still ontitle one. it has spent $15 billion or more even though the federal spending for public schools is only about 11% of the total. so we have if you are at the state level as i was you are always wondering why these guys are paying 11% of the bill making so many of the rules. it seems like they are making more than 11% of the rules of what we are supposed to do. while the draft has

>> senator enzi. estimate is there an industry racket priced technology that is used by all of the state's? because this would -- to follow a student it has to go between states as well as within the states. i know of several states that have the data currently. they just have it year by year they don't follow the child with a i don't think and that gets into some privacy situations and who owns the data, but is there an industry recognized process for having the state of follow the student to another state? >> this doesn't set the standard. there are a number of standards that can be used, and there are industry to recognize the standards already in place. what my amendment does is withstand rigorous testing for the security and privacy. so that's what the amendment is focused on doing. >> i think i would agree with that if it was within the state but once you start moving the data between the states, than all the states have to have the same industry recognized interoperable communications. and i'm

senator enzi? >> mr. chairman, i remember having several different hearings on this and i appreciate senator franken bringing this amendment because it is a vulnerable population of students are very often overlooked. in 2008 we passed some legislation that would attempt to address the issue of providing the transportation and services with social service agencies. and i don't think that's had a chance to really take hold yet. and i'm hesitant to put further restrictions and requirements on states and school districts into a fully understand how that has worked. >> okay, that is a child welfare law. and the child welfare agencies really haven't done that it was a 2008? all, it was, okay. okay, it can put these requirements on school districts and it certainly takes two to tango. all i can say is, is that these kids who really have a tremendous amount of challenges going from home to home very often, being the products of homes where there's abuse or drug use, or that kind of thing, very often, you know, t

senator mike enzi was with me at this time. we went up and we looked at and we saw a lot of these kids that came back and had been mutilated. and went down and talked to president kigami. he is in rwanda. rwanda in 1994 is where the greatest, the most devastating murder of genocide in recorded history in africa took place, killing 800,000 people, using machetes, torturing to death. and they had the same problem down there. if you go over to the d.r.c., democrat republican congo. that's joe kibila. he's very much concerned. the capital of d.r.c. is way over on the western side. it's several time zones over to the eastern side where joseph kony was killing these kids at that time. in fact, there's one city over there, the major city is goma. we were in goma shortly before he escaped and went north to the central african republic and back up to south sudan. i had occasion to be in south sudan last week. it's a new country. p tofs kind of an exciting thing -- it's kind of an exciting thing to go into a new country and talk with mem

predators on the public and the deadly force taken to stop what could have been a lethal feeding were enzi, it all adds up to a very ugly picture. we have to warn you, you be the picture of a tragedy that never had to happen, endangered animals, some nearly extinct, now lying dead in ohio farmland, including 18 of the rarest bengal tigers. >> can you imagine 18 running around in the neighborhoods this morning? i mean, i don't even want to -- i won't sleep for a long time even thinking about that. >> jack hanna talking about what he says is the saddest day of his life. hear more from him later tonight about those animals, the animals that never should have been kept where they were and whose lives never had had to end the way they did. you will hear as well from the local sheriff whose deputies became reluctant hunters in the name of public safety. er are live on the scene later this evening. >>> we begin however tonight keeping them honest, holding the people who want to be president to their word. >> you wouldn't hear a lot of shape-shifting nuance from me. i'm gonna gift american people

and the harkin-enzi draft moves us in that direction in some important ways. it sets a more realistic goal. it requires states to have high standards. it eliminates 95,000 public schools from the business of washington deciding whether schools are succeeding or failing. it helps states fix the bottom 5%. it encourages, as i've mentioned earlier, teacher-principal evaluations related to student achievement. that's an important step forward. it continues the reporting requirements of no child left behind which have been a valuable addition to what's been going on. it creates secretary's report card, not a requirement but a report card. it beefs up the teacher irn sentive fund which has been useful in encouraging teacher evaluations and it authorizes race to the top. that has a number of provisions in it that i would like to get out of it which in effect create more of a national school board but i am going to keep trying to remove those provisions and get it closer to the legislation senator isakson and i and burr introduced a few weeks ago. i think i have a cha

i'm pleased to have senator enzi as my chief cosponsor and additional colleagues from across the aisle, senator barrasso, senator snowe. and i'm pleased on this side of the aisle to have senator nelson and senator schumer and senator levin as cosponsors. that pretty much spans a spectrum of opinion in this chamber that everyone can agree that china should be held accountable, and if they are subsidizing their manufacturing, which they are, they have to disclose it, which they aren't, and that we can have a better debate about how to end their rule breaking under w.t.o. if we have that information. in closing, i just want to note that this debate should have happened a decade ago, should have happened five years ago, because over that time span, we have continued to hemorrhage jobs, we have continued to hope that china would apply the rule of law on intellectual property. we have continued to hope that they would end their manipulation of their currency. we have continued to hope that they would end their illegal subsidies undermining american products. while those hopes have not been r

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so that's the first thing the harkin-enzi draft includes about teacher evaluation. in tennessee, for example, that would mean that there would be about $41 million this year that could be spent for that purpose. there are about 63,000 teachers in tennessee, so that's about $660 per teacher, per year of federal funds that could be used to design and implement a principal-teacher evaluation system related to student achievement, and this is the first time that's been specifically allowed. secondly, there is something in the draft legislation called the teacher incentive fund. many school superintendents like the distinguished senator from colorado know that fund very well. we know it in tennessee because of the work in memphis. basically, it's a grant that was included as a result of language in no child left behind. secretary spellings then beefed up the program, got the money appropriated, and it recognizes the difficulty of figuring out how to reward and evaluate teachers in a fair way, especially if you're going to base compensation on that, and it says okay, if y

bipartisan solution has a companion bill in the senate sponsored by health committee ranking member mike enzi, and h.r. 2576 passed out of ways and means with bipartisan support. as has already been supported, president obama recognized the problem on page 41 which he explicitly opposes the entire amount of medicare benefits being included in the definition of income. mr. speaker, we must bring medicaid back into line with other federal assistance programs and limit improper payments to those who should not receive medicare benefits. thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time is reserved. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield to the gentleman from new york. mr. crowley: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. crowley: i thank you, mr. speaker. will the gentlelady yield? will she answer questions? mrs. black: under your time. mr. crowley: you suggested this change in magi as it pertains to tax credits that are eligible to the middle class under the affordable care act, is that

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in very early -- but the -- senator harkin and senator endescree working very hard -- and senator enzi are working very hard in the committee to come up with a rewrite of the no child left behind." they've -- of the leave no child behind. they've worked very, very hard. there's 140 amendments pending. more than 70 of them have been offered by one senator and that senator has objected to the committee meeting. it's hard how they're going to be considered when you to be a committee meeting. under the rules of the senate autograph right to object, if -- if the meeting takes more than two hours. after the senate comes into session. so, anyway, that's where we are. i think it's absolutely hard to comprehend how anyone could rationally do that. but that's what we have. so, anyway, we're coming in at 10:00 tomorrow morning. toll following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day. because of that, the committee is meeting vection verlly so they can continue

. >> i think you bring up a good point, senator enzi, and that's part of this amendment. we need to be sure we have quality time in these extended learning programs, with quality instruction that would keep the students' interest and i think be beneficial in the long run for not only the individual students in the school systems, but the states, too. >> now, mr. chairman, i would like to -- i did neglect to say, i do appreciate all the hard work that chairman harkin has put into this bill and i appreciate the efforts of both of you. thank you. i have a second amendment i would like to discuss, and this is hagan amendment title 2. this is about the low-performing schools receiving school improvement grant funding. when they are looking at 1-6 strategies for turning around their schools, this is discussing the replacement of the principals. i think we have all been in schools, and we know when you see a good principal. you can see it in the school, you can see it in the students. i want to be sure that under -- when we look at our consistently low-performing schools, it doe

the piece says he is working with his republican counterpart, michael enzi from wyoming. the details are not known but it says house republicans are also working on legislation and they are moving forward on their own policy overhaul -- a five-part package focusing on freeing states and school districts on many mandates and how to spend federal money, promoting more charter schools and changing the definition of effective teachers and offering more leeway of the type of instructors schools can put in the classroom. dozens of states, by the way, plan to apply for those waivers according to the education secretary. we want to hear from all of you. how would you change education in america? john is joining us on the line for all others from lancaster, pennsylvania. caller: i would go with raising teachers' salaries 15% to 20%. i would recommend -- this is a tough one because it is a local issue -- to eliminate at least 25% of administrators. that is where the big salaries go. that is for all the gobbledygook gets involved. i would like to mention one other thing. you guys ha

and that was cleared again with senator enzi and i. let's get the hearings out of the road and then this year we could focus on putting the bill together. so we had our hearings. i say to my friend, we brought in teachers, principals, superintendents from all over america. and then starting in january, we began a time-honored process whereby the chairman and ranking member started working on putting the bill together with our professional staff. that's why we have professional staff. senator alexander was in involved in that, other senators were brought in, senator bennet, senator franken, others on the republican side were brought in on that. i would say this, mr. president: the senator from kentucky had every day since he was sworn in in january to come to me or to go to senator enzi and say, i'm on the committee. here's what i would like in the bill. and that would have been considered. other senators did that. i see two of them sitting here right now who came and said, here's what i'd like to have in the bill. well, i sat down with

senator mike enzi was with me at this time. we went up and we looked at and we saw a lot of these kids that came back and had been mutilated. and went down and talked to president kigami. he is in rwanda. rwanda in 1994 is where the greatest, the most devastating murder of genocide in recorded history in africa took place, killing 800,000 people, using machetes, torturing to death. and they had the same problem down there. if you go over to the d.r.c., democrat republican congo. that's joe kibila. he's very much concerned. the capital of d.r.c. is way over on the western side. it's several time zones over to the eastern side where joseph kony was killing these kids at that time. in fact, there's one city over there, the major city is goma. we were in goma shortly before he escaped and went north to the central african republic and back up to south sudan. i had occasion to be in south sudan last week. it's a new country. p tofs kind of an exciting thing -- it's kind of an exciting thing to go into a new country and talk with mem

reuse and management act which i am introducing today along with senators kent conrad, senator michael enzi, senator mary landrieu, senator rob portman, senator ben nelson, senator joe nelson, and also senator john bozeman. four republicans and four democrats. this is truly a bipartisan piece of legislation. as i said, it is a companion to house resolution 2273 that passed the u.s. house of representatives last friday with strong, and i emphasize strong bipartisan support, and it takes a commonsense approach to ensuring that we can continue this vital industry and, in fact, build it, save millions of dollars for american consumers and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. this bill not only preserves coal ash recycling by preventing these byproducts from being treated as hazardous, it also establishes federal standards for coal ash disposal. under this legislation, states, states can set up their own permitting programs for the management and disposal of coal ash. these programs would be required to be based on existing e.p.a. regulations to protect human health and the environment. if a st