I want to congratulate EPA on the carbon power plant regulation. It is required by the law, and it is a good regulation, and I think it makes a lot of sense to protect our environment and for our economy.

One of the bills before us contains the Latta Amendment. That is a proposal that will cut the heart out of the Clean Air Act.

that is not good enough.

Before we get into a debate about whether or not we are going to increase funding for IDEA we can see if we can get bipartisan support to erase the $2 billion cut that is in that category in the Republican budget.

We see in the Republican budget that they have decided that it is going to all come out of the domestic side of the agenda.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

We cannot afford the disastrous across-the-board cuts known as budget sequestration to take effect next year.

If the Ryan budget is voted into law we could see disastrous consequences for America's children over the next couple years.

We shouldn't ask low-income and middle-class Americans to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while simultaneously delivering massive tax breaks to the richest one percent.

So these governors who are racing forward--the chief State schools officers who are racing forward to embrace innovation, to embrace these new opportunities, to empower their teachers, to improve their teachers, to evaluate the performance…

However well-intentioned, the Ryan plan is flawed and will create a significant burden on our ability to compete in a global economy by, among other things, balancing the budget on the backs of America's students.

It has to be a shared responsibility.

It is simply unfathomable to me that we would ask a generation of students to pay the price for adult political dysfunction.

Passage of the Ryan budget would propel educational success of this country backwards for years to come.

the Ryan plan draws on the same flawed theory that led to the worst recession in our lifetime

The Republican budget is also devastating to higher education. It slashes the Pell Grant program.

I agree with you and President Obama that education is the cornerstone of economic security for individuals and for our country as a whole.

Education is the cornerstone of economic security for individuals and for our country.