hosting today's program is lindsay burke. she researches and writes on federal and state education issues. she focuses on reduces and empowering families with school choice. >> thank you andrew. thank you for being here today and everybody watching online as well. we are excited to welcome vicki to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book. she does not mix words at all, the very title fairly arse of miseducation of america's children. she argues it is time to end it not and federal intervention and education. as she explains in her book, the federal government left education alone for about 100 years recognizing that it was the purview of state and localities. but gradually federal restraint gave away and by 1979 we saw the first cabinet level agency for education established. with a burst of the u.s. department of education. today, that agency houses nearly 5000 employees, manages over 150 federal education programs and has a discretionary budget of about 70,000,000,000 dollars. i might add it i

i thank them and all the other families especially monica gabriel lindsay feinberg kristin burke weisser for their tirelesr advocacy and patience. of course no compensation could repair the broken hearts of the families that lost a loved one to such mindless hate but as jane bartels, mother from staten island who lost her husband called me on that morning 15 years ago. recently, we just lost our day in court. d we just want our day in court. the victims of 9/11 and other terrorist acts have says it's -. suffered -- pain and heartache.s they should not be denied their pursuit of justice. mr. president there's always and zuccotti sunday by the senator cornyn and i've explained the chief argument used by detractors is not strong and in fact it's lazy. when weighed against the marlins in. if we have to do right by the families of the 9/11 victims. the choice is clear, i urge myk colleagues to override. thank you and i yield the floor. >> here's not a call call from "politico." president barack obama and former president bill clinton traveled to israel later this week for the funeral service