It is so disappointing when you come before us with a budget that is really devoid from reality and would seriously harm...
Your budget proposal has eliminated this crucial support for students in high-poverty schools.
I want to take time to acknowledge the continued struggles of children in Puerto Rico.
You and the President are to be commended for that.
I think the important thing is the policy here, and the proposal--the policy proposal is to put all of those programs to...
I just might add if you have not seen the video of the 6-year-old child being put in handcuffs, pleading, pleading for n...
However, you are decreasing the amount of money in the pot so that you are making schools really compete against each ot...
It is about the consequences. It is about what the effect of those cuts are on our children.
But if you are cutting the budget, you are cutting the budget.
The data is overwhelming.
we do have experimental evidence on the efficacy, or lack thereof, in terms of reducing poverty for work requirements.
I think in a bipartisan way, there is agreement on your comment, and we will, so ordered, put the information into the r...
Let us not denigrate a public school system that serves 90 percent of our kids and that is making gains.
If you deny the resources to the most--to the schools that need the help most, yes, you will fail.
And you are saying putting all these programs in a pot, decreasing the funds, everything is going to be fine.
I just would mention that in Arkansas, 18,000 individuals were kicked off the State's Medicaid program because of work r...
the cuts that you have proposed is doublespeak.
I don't understand, Madam Secretary, why do you continue to claim that additional resources to public schools do not imp...