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I just want to try to make sure that we can get that wonderful opportunity without basically saddling yourself for years and years as you look ahead.

If I cannot win a fair game, that is on me. But if I wind up in a situation where it is being manipulated against my company, it makes it awful tough to keep those workers working and to keep our economy growing.

If it is a fair field, we will do fine. But if the game is rigged, I do not know how we win that kind of game.

It is important here that we protect student privacy. But it is also important that we make--ensure that any new laws intended to create student privacy don't create--that are intended to create a student privacy floor do not also create a…

I have believed all along that the pledge alone wouldn't be enough, and that we ought to look at other ways that we can legally protect parents' rights to protect their child's privacy.

We can't be putting parents in the position where their choice is their kids gets an education or they have privacy, they can't have both.

We need parents as participants. We need them involved.

So unless Congress updates FERPA and clarifies what information can be collected, how that information can be used, and if that information can even be shared, student privacy will not be properly protected.

What are the things we need to do to give them long-term confidence that they should be betting on our side as opposed to the Taliban?

What did we miss, or did we know and were not able to stop it? What happened?

We have come a tremendously long way, but we want to make sure it does not slip back.

I think President Ghani, the National Unity Government, is on the way to doing that.

I think it's absolutely critical.

I appreciate that you fought for appropriate funding and did not get it. And just appalled at the failure of administrations of both parties not to invest in this country's infrastructure, to protect people's lives, and to build our…

They don't feel like they are being heard by this Administration.

I just want to make sure that you are on board.

As legislators, we are accountable to the taxpayers who fund the program.

I want to ensure that we protect the most vulnerable populations.