Speaking during a Senate hearing on implementation of the new federal education law, the head of the largest union in the country spoke about how awesome she thinks she is, as a way of explaining why senators should listen to her.

“I’m a really, really good sixth grade teacher,” Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, said Wednesday. “I give myself goosebumps. I’m amazing.” She then said she spent 13 years fighting against No Child Left Behind.