Supporting legislation to provide tax credits for teachers at high-need, high-poverty schools.

Expanding No Child Left Behind exemptions for rural teachers to all rural schools. The bill is currently pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee and has 5 cosponsors. Encourage respect for educators by using the tax code to recognize educator sacrifice and provide additional resources for schools. The bill is pending before the House Education and Workforce and Ways and Means Committees and has 59 cosponsors. Parent-teacher organizations and private groups often donate supplies, but educators say poor districts still come up short. The bill is pending before the House Ways and Means Committee and has 55 cosponsors. Blocking any proposal to privatize Social Security.

Opposing any efforts to mandate public employee participation in Social Security. The bill is currently pending before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and has 44 cosponsors. Cosponsoring legislation to address the priority issues outlined above. The bill is currently pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee as has 30 cosponsors. The bill is currently pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee and has 3 cosponsors. Including provisions to address the offsets in any Social Security package moving through Congress. Granting flexibility to states and schools to put in place workable accountability systems that will prevent a majority of public schools from being labeled as "low-performing. The bill is currently pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee and has 2 cosponsors. The bill is currently pending before the House Ways and Means Committee and has 47 cosponsors.

The bill would fully repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision, which unfairly reduce Social Security benefits of public employees. The bill is currently pending before the House Ways and Means Committee and has 283 cosponsors. Supporting a reauthorization of the Qualified Zone Academy Bond Program. The bill is currently pending before the House Education and Workforce Committee and has 11 cosponsors. President Bush's budget request for FY07 proposes elimination of funding for career and technical education.