I think they need to be put on an exchange. I think they need to be standardized, and there needs to be a lot more transparency.

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 NextGen.

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 flying public in if we don't act aggressively.

I do get reluctant at times when everybody says we all want it but we don't want to pay for it.

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 years old.

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 dropout rate.

It is hard to imagine any effective dropout program that does not save more money than it costs.

One of the things that happens with dropouts is they are very likely to end up in jail.

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 expenses in, at least, many identifiable States.

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 them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building prisons rather than come up with some…

I have introduced the Youth Promise Act, which is very similar, to reduce youth violence, where you bring in law enforcement, education, foster care, the probation department, churches, after-school programs, anybody that has anything to…

The Everyone Graduates bill sponsored by Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) achieves this and should be passed.

If you don't have a dropout rate factor, then you have a perverse incentive to let people drop out.

the Every Student Counts Act introduced by Representative Bobby Scott (H.R. 1569).

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.

By my estimation, these are simple requests for us to fulfill given the tremendous sacrifices we ask of these individuals.

I look forward to working with the Committee to provide these additional protections to our men and women in uniform.