All students deserve access to good information to inform their choices, regardless of whether they get aid or they don't.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for bringing this forward. The Marines United website was a disgusting breach of trust, and I immediately called for the perpetrators to be prosecuted. I appreciate General Neller coming to Congress…

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And I also want to thank the witnesses here as well once again.

The Federal Government has a clear role to play here.

The draft of the bill before us today is an interesting and potentially promising tool to help address one of the big questions that confronts the issue of cleaning up abandoned mines.

There is no question that help is needed. Reclaiming all of the remaining abandoned coal mines in this country would cost an estimated $10 billion.

I applaud my colleagues for taking this bold step forward.

Our students are older; they are attending college part-time while balancing many priorities, like children and work.

What we are talking about is the clarity in the language, and we don't believe that the issues that we are raising go in any way against the intent of the bill.

I hope that this is an issue that we can look at in more depth this Congress.

Frankly, that is the only way that we will make a significant dent in this problem.

The hardrock mining industry has also continually fought efforts to hold them accountable for these sites. That needs to change.

Volunteers, whether we call them Good Samaritans, Community Reclaimers, or anything else, will simply not be enough to tackle this problem.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Walz. Mr. Speaker, first, I want to thank Chairman Roe and Ranking Member Walz for giving me the opportunity to share my enthusiastic support for this bill, H.R. 2288. I also want to thank Mr. Bost and…

It is so good to see an administration returning to the policies that work and for the first time in 16 years having a President who actually gives a damn about balancing the budget before it bankrupts the country.

So this isn't theory, this is practice, and it has been practice under both Democratic and Republican administrations, when you cut the tax and regulatory burdens the economy expands.

Your budget turns us away from that bleak future.

I believe we averaged 1.5 percent every year for his 8 years. Is that correct?