I have always thought that we have missed the bet in a lot of cases where you have somebody who loves math...

We have to have comprehensive reform.

We believe to approach this issue and to approach the complexity of these issues, we must do this with comprehensive education reform in Indiana.

Indiana today--it was announced yesterday--leads the nation in access to advanced placement exams with more minority students taking those exams than ever before.

When I took office in 2009, we immediately set out a very aggressive plan in Indiana that said the academic achievement and career preparation of all Indiana students would be the best in the United States and on par with the most…

There are few issues more important to the strength of the nation's economy than education.

So the best thing to do would be to lift that up and be transparent about it, find out who is--there are great evaluative processes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the past several weeks, I have had the incredible privilege and honor to be traveling up and across my district, the First District of Minnesota, from the plains of Worthington to the Mississippi River Valley…

I am going to paraphrase a popular Tea Party slogan that goes something like this, quote, the Federal Government doesn't have a revenue problem, it had as a spending problem.

Nowhere in my statement did I say the budget deficit is not a spending problem.

His record to me would indicate that he has voted to add trillions of dollars to the national debt.

The federal government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.

Is it possible to reduce the federal deficit to responsible levels without capping or cutting defense spending and without looking at the tax perks that many corporations and lobbyists have been successful in getting?

I voted against the deficit-busting bill.

The budget deficit is not a spending problem.

I hope the gentleman's misrepresentation of my comments does not reflect the manner in which this committee will conduct itself in the future.

I think we need to be careful of gutting domestic investments in education, infrastructure, and R&D in the next decade.

I can't make a decision in isolation, so I look to all of us to put everything on the table.