Do you have something in your budget request that zeroes in on this?
Yes, lifting the cap on the mandatory side gives you that $428 million.
So your budget request increases HCFAC funding by $428 million? Is that, which you are saying?
I am deeply concerned about proposed cuts to the Community Services Block Grant program and LIHEAP.
We all have things we like and things we don't like, but we must try to refrain from making any one issue a 'deal breaker.'
This bill honors significant investments this committee made in those programs just last year.
Our days are very, very short. I do think we need to look at longer school years also.
The goal is not to go to college; the goal is to complete at the backend.
We want to challenge people to step up and do more here.
I think finally the American people, and, certainly, the business community has been behind this forever.
I have been deeply committed to expanding access to high-quality early learning programs for most of my career.
I tend to think that we do need longer school days. I don't know about a longer week.
This recent investment represents a long overdue opportunity to start moving the needle on college costs and student success.
It is not too late, but I wish we would have done this 25 years ago.
Hopefully, we can come up with a good funding level for the preschool program.
I think we need to continue these important investments, not cut them and leave fewer of our students served.
I have been a strong supporter of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs' (ILAB) efforts to protect labor rights and combat the worst for...
I just hear a lot about this, about misclassification, and how workers are really, well, I will say it frankly, being cheated out of what th...
