Lawmakers from both parties are also wary of losing more control over decisions on the scope and pace of infrastructure development, a key area of federal spending that they can direct to their states and districts.
While Senators and Congressmen respond to the voters in their states and districts (hopefully with an eye to broader interests), the President, his Cabinet, and the bureaucrats under them should serve the American public at large.
We would hope that men and women who went back to their states and their districts during this recess will be listening to the voices of Americans and voices of immigrants.
And they have -- they hear from small business owners, large business owners, corporations, non-profit organizations, citizens in their communities and districts and states.
And that's just the matter -- just like congressional travel paid for by taxpayers, require congressmen and women fly home on recess, as they'll do shortly, back and forth to their districts and states.
But we are now at a moment where those Americans who were elected to represent people in their home districts and states need to decide about what is the greater good here.
The Obama administration has a cradle-to-career agenda to support states and districts as they reform their schools and make college more affordable for students.
Many pro-tax reform candidates have lost elections in favorable states and districts, largely because their opponents were able to successfully demagogue against a national sales tax.
Members of Congress are elected by their constituents -- ordinary Americans in districts and states across the country.
Second, all states and school districts must turn around their worst performing schools -- or shut them down.
For the vast majority of schools, however, states and districts would be left alone to meet their targets.
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Third, all states and school districts must be held responsible for the quality of their teachers.
The 12 Fed districts regulate financial firms in the US states that are within their jurisdiction, collect and analyse economic data, and provide banking services.
Since January 2009, the Division has opened 22 new investigations to determine if school districts, and in some instances, entire states, were complying with their obligations to ensure educational opportunities for students with limited English skills.
But cities, counties and school districts, like states, showed indecent largesse during the boom years in their pension promises, often using wildly unrealistic investment assumptions.
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