One of the root causes to health disparity is the obesity epidemic that is rampant in our Nation.
Now, how are we going to pay for it? That is the bottom line.
I was very pleased that Senator Reid's plan would virtually close the Pell shortfall for the next 2 years.
I am sure it is a concern of the two colleagues of mine.
The unsustainable growth in the costs of the Pell Grant program continues to be an anchor dragging down the entire budget for the Department...
But it holds promise for the people with cystic fibrosis and their families.
That would herald, if it were approved by FDA--It's in clinical trials now.
However, our Nation is $14 trillion in debt, and I think we must rein in spending.
But they are not the only part of the education part.
Mr. Secretary, as we think of Pell grants, do we not have to think of them in the overall budget process of the Department of Education?
we cannot starve the future. We cannot starve our children of food and sustenance. We cannot starve them of an education.
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 Nation, because I th...
The Federal Government, I believe, should give States the flexibility to implement critical reforms as identified on the State and local lev...
It is unacceptable to all of us.
I am concerned, and I am sure you are, that the 2012 budget proposal does not request funding for the mathematics and science partnership pr...
I always like to take that time to reaffirm the fact that we have constitutional obligations to provide this kind of education to our kids.
I am concerned that replacing formula-funded programs with so-called competitive programs will result in the redirection of critical Federal...
If we do not do this, where are the jobs going to come from in the future?
