These institutions should be held accountable, but we must be careful not to limit the choices available to students.
The President has set the goal of the United States leading the world in college graduates by the year 2020.
Thank you, Chairman Harkin, for holding this important hearing.
The problem with the for-profit education industry, in my view, is that risk and reward have been divorced.
I do not know how we can determine what role for-profit colleges will be able to play in meeting this goal.
Allegations of fraud against certain career colleges should be fully investigated and those engaged in these practices s...
When I speak of Pennsylvania, I think it's emblematic of a lot of places. We are, in our State, at about 9.1 percent une...
Now, at the same time, I'm sure some anxiety in Pennsylvania is connected to the fact that our deficit--our primary budg...
What is often not recognized is the considerable attention that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the S...
I know in our State, in Pennsylvania, there are still, by one estimate, as many as over 1,200 people still living in fiv...
I want to thank both of you for being here and for your testimony and for your service at a tough time in our Nation's h...
What we know from 40 years of experience is that people do better in the community than in institutions, no matter their...
We admire very much the efforts that you and your colleagues in Congress have made to highlight the importance of free a...
I urge you to be a strong voice for the use of those enhanced authorities.
We need to provide employers with more guidance, more tools, and more protection to encourage them to offer a range of o...
I will not support any kind of mandate for consumers because we recognize there is a wide range of circumstances and nee...
In the absence of a lot of complaints, I can understand why you may not be at this point yet, assuming there will be hea...
I would urge you, General Varney, to take a look at that. That touches a very sore subject with my dairy farm industry.
