Chaka Fattah

Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs. ”

The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone. ”

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. ”

Democracy derailed is democracy denied. ”

We have major fiscal problems on our hand. ”

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. ”

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. ”

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. ”

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators. ”

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. ”