Expensive new Federal programs, like free college, are ill-advised and unlikely to be considered.

We are spending more on giving money away than we ever did on education. It makes no sense to me at all.

This is stupid. And we just keep piling it on like it is-- there is no end to it.

Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce.

Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

I commend you for that. However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have.

This $40 million cut is based on false claims of the declining demand for the program...

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

The challenges facing K through 12... are downright alarming for the current generation of our students.

The political leadership at the Department of Education chose to spend time, resources, and personnel to advance the administration's priorities around cancelling student debt.

We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is because rural America has been being left behind and getting screwed.

We have to--you are in the Education Department, you have to educate people on what is available.

I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long.

Well, I think this law is very clear, basically, it says that the patient himself and the guardians have to have permission, and give you permission to do it.