One of the results of No Child Left Behind... is that... the first teachers to go... is usually the art teacher or the m...
We have it in Iowa and a few other States, and we have been funding it. All of the indications are that it has been a gr...
Can you give us some specificity as to how we can make college opportunity more affordable for the young people of Ameri...
There is no magic bullet anywhere along the line.
How we progress as a country and how we are going to maintain our standard of living, our way of life, and provide for e...
Thank you very much.
We are in the business of educating kids and not letting them play on monkey bars.
You have a big job ahead of you. I don't think there is any Secretary whose decisions, whose statements, public posture ...
The Secretary of Education, along with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, they have the task of defining Americ...
Education has been a bipartisan issue, and we need to keep it that way.
I'm glad we could get this hearing in early, because we need someone to hit the ground running at the Department of Labo...
I commend you for the example that you have sent out for so many young women, including my two daughters.
I hope, Congresswoman, that you will take a look at these proposed rules and come up with rules that basically would dis...
The trouble is, workers never saw their share during the last economic boom but they are getting more than their share o...
I have a nephew who is severely paraplegic.
One of the great injustices in our society has been the fact that so many Americans dealing with a mental illness don't ...
I don't mean to prolong this. We're anxious to get on with the administration and get you in as Secretary of Labor.
I look forward to working with you and to, hopefully, making the Department of Labor a true department of labor.
