It seems the Democratic Party won’t be satisfied until power over every aspect of the lives of Americans is centralized in Washington.

Senator Lamar Alexander provided the GOP’s weekly remarks which you can read below.

The article is by Andrew Malcolm of Investor’s Business Daily, h/t to Hot Air.

GOP: Do you realize Obama is seizing control of local education too?

I’m United States Senator Lamar Alexander.

This is the season for high school graduations. And more than two million of those graduating are going to college. (Scroll down for video of these complete remarks.)

Both Republicans and Democrats agree that college is the surest ticket to the middle class and we want to help by making it simpler and smarter to get a student loan.

That’s why the Republican House of Representatives has passed, and President Obama and Senate Republicans agree, on the same idea: A permanent solution to all student loan interest rates before some automatically rise on July first. The idea is to allow the market to set interest rates.

It’s fairer to students and fairer to taxpayers.

Now some Senate Democrats want a short-term political fix that will only benefit forty percent of new student loans, but they stand alone.

Between now and the end of the month, Senate Republicans will work hard with the President and with the House to produce an agreement that ensures all student borrowers benefit from today’s low interest rates. That would mean that 100 percent of all new student loans made this year would have a rate below five percent.

We may be in agreement on student loans, but we have a major disagreement about who should be in charge of our 100,000 public schools that educate 50 million American children.

To put it simply, Democrats want a national school board; Republicans favor local control.