When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point. – Cathy McMorris
Today, over half of Chinas undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of Americas undergraduates pursue these schools. – Cathy McMorris
I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue thats doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses. – Cathy McMorris
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. – Cathy McMorris