Senate GOP leader: I have no secret pact with Democrats on education reform
- 11/03/11 05:15 AM ET
A Senate Republican leader is pushing back against claims that he and Sen. Tom Harkin have a secret plan to pass the Iowa Democrat’s education reform bill.
During an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program last month, Harkin said he and Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) had ironed out a bipartisan strategy to pass a retooled No Child Left Behind bill through the upper chamber.In October, Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said he and Alexander, who sits on the committee, had come up