There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

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