Mr. Speaker, this morning I was at Penn State University, a great land grant university, for the inaugural conference of the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse. Penn State has brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to address…

Ed Build a nonprofit organization that you are undoubtedly familiar with, focuses on common sense and fairness in the way states fund public schools.

Having said that, I am also from Pennsylvania as was one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, who asked two questions.

the number one strategy was economic support.

So when the electronic health record goes live next spring, will suicide risk be a flag that is immediately available?

financial instability is an absolute risk factor.

Seventy percent of the 20 suicide deaths per day among our veterans, which is absolutely heart wrenching, have not received VA health care.

Despite this, the Department of Education under this Administration has failed to protect students against low-performing institutions.

The GI Bill and its intent does produce great results when it is used the way it was intended.

The two fundamental differences between a for-profit and non-profit is at a non-profit you have to put the money back into the institution.

Nearly two years ago, I voted to pass the Forever GI Bill to ensure that our nation's veterans can access the benefits of the social mobility that come with a high-quality post-secondary education.

I come from Las Vegas, Nevada, where in Nevada we have 220,000 veterans, in my district alone 50,000.

But we know, for too many student veterans, that is just not the case.

the White House is just going to play politics just like the Democrats are.

I think the Mueller report actually disposes of that concern, because it's clear that Mueller said that the president wasn't involved and that there was certainly no determination that Russian interference had any determinative effect on…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today, during National Volunteer Week, to acknowledge the many Americans who generously give their time and talents to help improve the lives of others. Since the founding of the United States, Americans have always…

Great education should not be dependent on family income.

I personally was very troubled by the number and the breadth of the issues that were revealed in those performance reports.