I think it's going to be a real challenge because we're not necessarily paying salaries or competing with the Afghan Government.

We have had our military presence, but we also have had an effort to provide economic development assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

I don't want that to turn into a hollow opportunity.

I believe that higher education is a very important right in our country.

I look forward to working with you on a clear set of rules of the game, reform and maintaining choice and opportunity but not profiteering and gouging.

We need to make sure that we have a set of rules for who we help that doesn't add to student debt.

Senator Mikulski, at a previous hearing referred to them as bounty hunters and she was more right than I think anyone realized.

I think we can do better without necessarily having to enact new laws.

I think we need to look at the niche that they fill and examine what other institutions could fill that niche.

Thanks to an amendment by Senators Sherrod Brown, Bennet, Franken and Mikulski, the Bureau will include a Private Education Loan Ombudsman.

In my 15, almost 16 years in this Congress, there is one agency that I have a tremendous amount of admiration for accuracy and doing the job right and doing it independently and that is GSA.

Mr. Chairman, I, too, want to see Mr. Gordon get out of here on time--and I know you will.

This policy appears to contradict the rules and the precedent of our committee.

This new policy is not only unfair and unprecedented, but it directly contradicts the rules of the House and the rules of our committee.

We requested Dr. Peter Phillips, an expert in economics of the construction industry, but you refused to allow him to testify.

Chairman Issa's new policy is an extreme edict, and I am aware of no other House or Senate committee with a similar policy.

By denying the minority its choice of witnesses you have denied the committee, and by that I mean the committee of the whole, the balance to conduct meaningful oversight.

PLAs are precisely the market instrument capable of setting and adjusting work rules to the specific needs of particular projects. Robbing the government of PLA contracts robs the government of the ability to address this issue that critics claim is salient.