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Instead, the answer is to pour more money into a system that honestly is broken, and has been failing our students, and saddling them with tremendous debt.

I think that everybody agrees that Pell Grants have been an extraordinary and powerful tool in helping low-income students across this Nation access a post-secondary education.

We want to support our students. We want to give them every single one, regardless of socioeconomic status, a chance for opportunity for growth.

I've been very vocal about administrative bloat.

Institutions with poor Pell Grant completion rates should be held accountable.

A Pell Grant should not be allowed so often to be a ticket to nowhere.

We must fix a broken system, not by throwing more money at it, but demanding financial accountability by higher educational systems.

Pumping additional dollars into the Pell Grant problem will not solve the serious underlying issues plaguing the higher education sector.

The Pell Grant program is the cornerstone of Federal student aid.

We can't have everything always given to us, and I knew I just had to work extra hours despite being in a pre-medical program.

I truly understand the difficulties of the burdens that we're now placing upon students in overwhelming debt.

Sadly, the truth is that colleges and universities, not the students, are the major beneficiaries of the Pell Grant program.

Congress created a very generous Federal student aid system.

This past summer, I introduced the Stronger Communities Through Better Transit Act, which would create a new program to provide high-quality, frequent public transit.

This is an issue that we should be able to embrace on a bipartisan basis.

I urge my colleagues to support the rule, my amendments, and the underlying bill.

I particularly admire those line officers and the investigators that you have, sir, Mr. Condon, for the way they persist in the face of misguided policy.

The last Administration followed most of it that was in statute, so they deserve a little bit of credit for having accomplished something that none of us thought they could do.