the budget stands in a sharp contrast to the plan outlined by the majority in H.R. 1, which includes radical spending cuts that will cost Am...
the Republican budget looks to cut in half programs that work.
It would seem to me that we would want to put some money in there to actually do so.
The right will protect you. The right side will protect you.
to cut the deficit, the majority could have ended $40,000,000,000 in subsidies to oil companies, $8,000,000,000 in agricultural subsidies to...
The question of deficit reduction is where you start? And it should not be on the backs of people trying to make a living.
The point I want to make is that cutting the Pell Grant funding... will reduce the number of low-income students receiving bachelors degrees...
I just would add a point on this that I think it is important to note, that reports are that the for-profit institutions represent 11 percen...
I suspect that is one of the reasons why we are taking a very hard look at what they do and what those outcomes are, which makes enormous se...
If you talk to any economist about what stimulates the economy, it isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent...
I think they may be Pell Grant recipients and probably SEOG recipients, et cetera, and are counting on...
I want to get to a bunch of questions about the number; why the rapid increase in Pell recipients?
Early interventions produce broad-based benefits, reduce social and economic inequality.
Research shows that the programs are investments. There is no more effective investment than the focus on high-quality early learning.
I think it is important to reiterate again that today the average earnings of a college-educated person is $43,000 while someone with just a...
this is about the 13 percent cut in the majority's budget in regard to CMS and the Medicare program management.
Ben Bernanke--and I talked about him yesterday in the education hearing--says the most important fiscal issue is whether the public interest...
I am a very strong supporter, as you quoted my remarks, of Head Start.