If it's possible to get us data for the record in terms of that list of people who qualified for bonuses and/or got bonuses, and how many of...
How much did AIG get pumped into the company directly from appropriated dollars from this body?
Those instruments are more appropriate for large commercial banks and investment banks that have the skill sets.
My time is probably running out. But let me ask a final question.
I don't think this is a, as a well-informed citizen, I don't think I fully appreciated, potentially, what jeopardy we are placing all of our...
I do get reluctant at times when everybody says we all want it but we don't want to pay for it.
I'm not new to these issues, and I want to follow up on some of Senator DeMint's comments about the sense that there's agreement around Next...
you really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put t...
the Every Student Counts Act introduced by Representative Bobby Scott (H.R. 1569).
One study showed that African Americans that drop out of high school have about a one-third chance of being in jail when they are 26 to 30 y...
If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out.
The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed.
I have introduced the Youth Promise Act, which is very similar, to reduce youth violence, where you bring in law enforcement, education, fos...
Those that drop out are much less likely to get a job, make a lot more--businesses don't want to move into areas where there is a high dropo...
If you got a 50 percent dropout rate, 100 children, 50 percent drop out, that is 100, that is going to cost you about $5 million in prison e...
Now, most of the programs that we have seen by research have shown that they can save more money than they cost.
The regulation must be maintained and strengthened through inclusion of ESCA into a reauthorization of ESEA.
One of the things that happens with dropouts is they are very likely to end up in jail.
