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The category of school with the highest completion rates? For-profit, two-year institutions.

For-profit schools, their tuition and fees have gone down 12.5 percent over the same time period.

The Democrat Party is obsessed with so-called facts about for-profit schools.

The retroactive accreditation was done for the students so that the time they were in school, the money they invested was not wasted.

They didn't care about those students. They just shut them down arbitrarily and didn't give them a chance to help those students get their transcripts.

The truth is that Congress has failed in its obligation to produce laws and statutes that serve in the interest of students.

How can Congress help the Department in this regard? Because I think the situation with ECA could have been better had we had some rule on this issue.

The fact that both a regional and a national accreditor were caught up in this tells me we can't single out any one accreditor, that all accreditors need to improve their analysis of quality assurance and continuous improvement.

It needs to be stated over and over and over again that the court ordered the Department to do that.

That needs to be talked about more.

Three dozen, 36 schools that have graduation rates in the single digits.

That is a number that should keep everyone up at night, and that is a number that has been exacerbated through this policy, unfortunately, of subsidizing higher education at a rate that is just breathtaking from the Federal level.

The strategy may be politically convenient for them, but it tells me and the American people they do not care about the vast majority of students

I invest a lot of time in these hearings, and I'm on two committees. And honestly, on this subject we have the most experts in the Congress of any subject that I am aware of, bar none.

You have been painted as somebody who had a nefarious reason for opening up this plan, and I think it's a very unfair portraiture of you.

The right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental.

HBCU's are producing 17 percent of all bachelor's degrees that are earned by African American students, 24 percent of all STEM graduates.

Education is the pathway to greater opportunity.