Secretary Duncan, thank you very much for your testimony and for answering questions.
I think it would be better if we are going to take it over and create so-called 'savings' if we give the students the sa...
I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our count...
But this is going to have to be changed, in my view.
We have to make sure we don't go south. We have to make sure we are not seeing hundreds of thousands of people laid off.
I look forward to working with you to see how we can shoehorn this in some way.
We must remember that education begins at birth and that preparation for education begins before birth.
I hope that we can count on your active support and the support of the administration in getting this emergency funding ...
Thank you very much, Mr. Cortines.
We are going to do everything we can, and I am going to ask for your help and the President's help in getting this done.
That is why later today I will introduce a bill--the Keep Our Educators Working Act.
I can't think of a more important thing to do in the immediate timeframe than that.
The status quo is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable during economic downturns to say that we are just going to ta...
We are still about $5.7 billion short in the Pell Grant program.
We must act soon. We must act soon.
I'm hopeful that sometime soon the Congress will be able to appropriate some money for summer youth employment.
President Obama has set an ambitious goal for Americans to reclaim the world's highest rate of college attainment by 202...
Reauthorization gives us the opportunity to move beyond just identifying long-standing gaps in opportunity and achieveme...
