The higher education proposals outlined in the president's budget represent another expansion of federal authority that I fear will ultimately lead to more headaches for students, parents, and institutions.

Improving education in America is a priority for everyone in this room.

We should be investing in this system. Instead, the Republican budget cuts Title I, denying critical support to thousands of schools and millions of children.

Education failures pose several threats to our national security.

President Obama believes that the federal government has an important role to play as well.

they are going to get their financials in shape. They are going to be auditable not just by 2017; he wants to beat that date.

I would like to state my strong opposition to any cooperation with the Chinese dealing with the International Space Station.

It is time to do something.

I truly appreciate your tireless effort in facing down evil.

That is an absolute falsehood, but they will use that to try to cut off communication.

Hostile foreign governments that censor the U.S. media in their domestic markets should not be granted First Amendment rights in America.

Confucius Institutes are primarily concerned with providing Mandarin training to American professionals and K-through-12 students.

There is, furthermore, nothing about gaining fluency in Mandarin that inclines a student to support the Chinese Communist Party or its policies.

Chinese maps are different than perhaps the maps that we might get here in the United States.

I know that you are far more American than so many others that I have to deal with quite often.

U.S. publications must be required to clearly reveal when they place content that is provided by a foreign governments or an agent of a foreign government.

Something is wrong with that. I think that the Chinese money has helped grease this misperception.

China is the world's largest dictatorship and human rights abuser.