shifting the blame to the States is not where the appropriate accountability ought to be here.

If you are saying everything was done right, we did the analysis just as we did with the initial loans, it is just not accurate.

Deloitte will not provide an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the proposed changes to each CO-OP's business plan.

I just think it is totally inappropriate for you all to say, as Mr. Slavitt just did, they did the best job they could with the information they had, and that somehow, this is just a problem with startups.

Let me tell you what the New York CO-OP situation is, because you question our numbers or you have not looked at the numbers yourselves. This is how we got into that mess. It vastly overshot its enrollment targets while underpricing its…

I hope this hearing gets a lot of attention, and I hope your testimony gets a lot of attention.

Let me give you a few highlights.

Certainly 300 percent was not enough.

Mr. President, today I wish to honor the life of Shane N. Yates. Shane was the executive director of the Ohio Society of Association Executives. Shane had a fierce commitment to his organization and his profession. Shane had a relentless…

This was the fault of HHS, the way the program was structured.

Thank you, Senator Lankford. And, again, Dr. Harrington, thanks for your help on this, and your expertise has been helpful to us as we have gone through this report and tried to figure out how this could have happened.

It's clear you face a daunting array of security and governance challenges in the region, yet SOUTHCOM continues to suffer from persistent resource shortfalls that undermine efforts to confront these challenges.

We, of course, must improve and adequately resource our drug interdiction strategy to combat these groups, but we must also renew our efforts to combat the real driver of drug trafficking: the demand here at home.

Borrowers, taxpayers, and future students who benefit from those revolving funds all need to be considered here.

Well, people that are the first person in their family to go to college often have a different concept of what is available for them to do, what they decide to major in.

My overreaching concern with this request is that the increase of $1.3 billion for the Department of Education dwarfs the total increase for all of non-defense discretionary spending--which is $40 million.

I think community colleges are the best buy in higher education.

Well, as you know, kids who are victims of violence, witnesses of violent acts, surrounded by violence, and have lots of things going on that make it hard to focus on the things that they otherwise would hopefully be focused in school.