the daunting prospect of the pathway through higher education... might affect... the way they pursue their high school s...
If you go through the doors of that schoolhouse and you work hard, you can do just about anything here in America.
Let me also ask that the record remain open for 1 week for additional statements and questions from Members.
We can do better than this, and you have given us some great ideas to work with.
The best-off are the job creators, so if we concentrate wealth with the job creators, we will have more jobs.
In order to lead, our challenge is to guarantee that outdated energy policies do not pull America back into the pack.
Our committee--on a bipartisan basis--needs to be part of a robust conversation about how best to determine costs and be...
Our country--with a long tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship--has the opportunity to lead the way.
I think that tells you that there is something wrong with the banking system as it is operating today.
The cost of college has risen compared to a working wage. That then has not been compensated for by Pell grants.
This trend of increasing inequality is diminishing not only our economic strength but also our working families' trust i...
This is a very huge predatory practice that as a society you would think that we would be able to get control over, but ...
When I was Speaker of the House in Oregon, we passed a law that limited the payday loan interest rates down to about 36 ...
We know that this country can afford to do for this generation and subsequent generations what it did to create the grea...
The American taxpayer delivers $140 billion each year to subsidize retirement accounts, but still millions of Americans ...
this is a program where there is a consensus that it genuinely helps people in need, and particularly our vulnerable chi...
It would cost the Federal Government more money.
It is my sincere hope that the tradition of bipartisanship in retirement policy will continue and that the next retireme...
