I appreciate your remarks, by the way, honoring our teachers.
A proposed 41 percent increase for the Department of Education in a single year will leave the next generation saddled with the highest nati...
I also believe in strong support for Pell Grant recipients.
we are not just sharing information, but we are also not exporting information to other folks like China, that want to be able to steal that...
I will be very clear there, and I don't do this in any kind of way to try and start a fight or whatever.
Tom, you can have a deal or you can have a fight, but you can't have both.
I simply think that is a wrong sense of priority.
I think we can make those efforts bipartisan.
I really want to work to keep those disagreements in balance to where we could still have a bipartisan outcome and a bipartisan budget.
I would love to have the opportunity on another occasion to talk to you and address this and find out ways we could work together.
This proposal, in my view, exacerbates that.
I love the Appropriations Committee. I mean, I really tell people I don't care if you are on the left or the right, the appropriators are de...
I am deeply concerned by a Federal Register notice published last month by your Department proposing competitive priorities for the national...
I think that reflects, Mr. Secretary, partly a great deal of confidence in you on both sides of the aisle.
I think most of my Republican colleagues share that view. We think we live in an extraordinarily dangerous world right now.
We need to look toward some way to get at least some mandatory funding.
Madam Chair, you are the chair of this subcommittee and the full committee. I don't think you have to apologize to anybody when you take som...
Well, thank you very much, Madam Chair. And before I begin my scripted remarks, I want to welcome our friend and our former colleague to thi...
