First, he is very concerned about the health and welfare of America's children and wants to make sure our children have access to nutritious...
We are committed to a fair resolution of outstanding and longstanding civil rights cases against the Department.
We think it is important for a multitude of reasons that we address aggressively child nutrition.
If you focus simply on one or two of the three, then you are not going to make the food available.
We appreciate the opportunity that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has given us to invest in appropriate investments.
We will focus on expanded trade promotion, particularly through a coordinated strategy for exporting biotechnology crops.
He wants to end childhood hunger by 2015. He is committed to it. We are committed to it.
We believe 9.8 million participants is a very good, healthy estimate of what the program will be.
Broad bipartisan support and for good reason.
For every $5 we invest in that specific program, we get $9.20 of economic activity.
I agree that we should not charge students more for their student loans in order to generate profits for lenders.
Do you want to improve math scores? Do some music.
We in Congress, especially on this subcommittee, and the Education Department have a special responsibility to make sure that the money is u...
Expanding access to high quality early childhood programs is one of the best investments we can make.
We are concerned about that cut in the base.
You can't guess at what is important. You need to know what is happening.
There is a huge opportunity here to invest in leadership, and that would cure many of the problems that ail us.
Mr. Secretary, thank you very much. You have been very generous with your time and input and I'm sure that we will be dealing with your peop...