This is all the result of collateral damage from political gridlock.
How does that make sense? We do not even curb our CODELs, much less take a salary reduction.
Unless Congress acts by March 1, the sequester will slash thousands of jobs.
I will continue, as a member of this committee, to remind this committee that nearly 50 million people live in poverty; ...
Our budget is not only a road map to fiscal responsibility, but it is also a moral document.
Nearly 50 million people live in poverty; 16 million are children. And this is unacceptable.
Maybe we actually have an energy policy in the United States and don't know it.
Unless you're careful, you're going to get your performance standards, your teacher evaluation systems, your achievement...
This was our Plan B because of the congressional lack of action.
We've always said there is a role for the Federal Government in making sure that kids that are disadvantaged, for whatev...
America's children and families deserve nothing less, and I look forward to continuing to work with this committee towar...
We ought to have a lean bill, and see if we can go back to work this year and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary E...
I am pleased with that answer.
It sounds like we're getting some distinction between career-ready and college-ready.
My bias is to go the other way, using as evidence most of what's happened in the last few years.
But as a country, you've just gone through a whole series of exercises where States have together created common standar...
The correct thing for us to do, in my opinion, is for the Secretary to show restraint on insisting on a one-size-fits-al...
I look forward to working with Chairman Harkin on that as he--we were both thinking the same thing.
