The Federal Government, I believe, should give States the flexibility to implement critical reforms as identified on the...
I am concerned, and I am sure you are, that the 2012 budget proposal does not request funding for the mathematics and sc...
In the area of mathematics and science partnerships, the United States continues to fall behind, as we know, other devel...
How are we going to pay for this, because that is going to be the bottom line up here this year and in the future.
If we do not do this, where are the jobs going to come from in the future?
That is $1 billion here and $8 billion there, and it is real money?
I am gravely concerned that the Department of Education has delayed some of the tough choices that are necessary to ensu...
But if you cannot have it all, and you cannot--I wish you could, and I wish that I were here when we owed no money as a ...
I am concerned that replacing formula-funded programs with so-called competitive programs will result in the redirection...
I am concerned that the scoring process for the Race to the Top applications essentially mandates which interventions sh...
But we are all taking a chainsaw to our budget right now to a certain extent because of our failure to act.
However, in your written statement, Mr. Secretary, you state, and I quote, 'Our request is a responsible budget that emp...
We cannot starve the future. We cannot starve our children of food and sustenance. We cannot starve them of an education...
Eighteen billion dollars.
But there are some big insurance companies that could cause systemic risk to this country.
I will not be speaking for the Administration or for the industry, or for the State regulators.
The banks are in good shape. But they were not. They were undercapitalized and in a lot of instances not well managed.
I would think that the ideal situation would be a message from the regulators that nobody is too big to fail.
