My proposal was rejected by a vote of 153 to 271. I didn't expect to win this time around, but I wanted to raise the issue. I'll raise it again in the future. Educationally and economically disadvantaged children deserve a better chance in life, and a better education, than they are currently getting. There are powerful forces in society which want to avoid innovation and experimentation in order to find new and better ways of doing things.
Children suffer as a result, and America as a whole suffers over the long run.
When the old approach isn't working, we have to be willing to try new things. Q. Well, that's all the time we have this week, Representative Petri. Your Porker Award will be back next week. So, to our listeners, thank you for joining us.