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

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our economy, and maybe that would make the President and his administration take a different look at this in a different way.

Small businesses are the heart of our economy and our communities, especially in West Virginia where more than 98% of our businesses are small businesses.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

I do think the added investments in actual training programs that reach communities that have been left out in the past would also help to create, you know, a climate in which people understand that these are real options for them.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.