But Lee compared those amendments to “plagiarism,” said they were filed after the meeting began, and suggested he didn’t trust the intentions of those promoting Flores’ legislation once it got out of the committee. House Republicans are generally less interested than the Senate in making sweeping changes to the testing system.
“I don’t think you’re going to reform much testing anyway — not unless Senator Montford is out in front,” Lee said. “I think this is going to get watered down, and whatever we’re able to do to get out of the Senate here that we can declare victory and meaningful reform will get watered down, and what we see in messages (from the House) will be useless.”
But supporters of the legislation tabled Monday said they were confident it would return. Flores said she has been working with Montford on the bill.
“I think that it was important for Senator Lee to say, let’s spend some time talking about this,” she told reporters. “There were some late-filed amendments. Now we’ve just got a little more time to talk about the amendments.”
