Our proposal is also consistent with virtually every other pension plan — state and private — currently operating in our country, and it matches the strategy most nations use to fund their retirement programs.

No legislation of this size is perfect—but there’s no question that this bill includes major priorities I’ve been fighting for on behalf of Coastal Virginia.

Mr. Speaker, the bill before us takes food and drink from the mouths of the poor. It takes healthcare from the sick. A vote for this bill betrays these Gospel teachings, and in our hearts all of us know it.

This is extortion.

We were on the verge of what could have been a much greater war.

You can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want. This will be a political albatross for the Republicans.

you can put as much lipstick on this pig as you want.

I don't think we have final assessments.

This is going to hurt our universities. Chase away world-class talent.

This federal D.O.E. and Department of Justice should get their nose out of University of Virginia.

This federal DOE and Department of Justice should get their nose out of University of Virginia.

They want to take on public universities the way they have now taken on the Ivies.

If we don't have some level of academic freedom, then what kind of country are we?

it's not over until it's over.

The military did great. We have set them back.

I think many of my Republican friends know they're walking the plank on this.

This is the most outrageous action, I think, this crowd has taken on education.

They all want to make them like Harvard.