I think the programs were very successful. I think we got the money out quickly, and we saved a lot of small businesses from closing.

It is very important I think to have the psychology of counselors, of educators, to understand there are some kids who want to be maybe computer people that after 2 years of a junior school or 2 years of a technical school, if you are a…

I never see anything that says where is the cut? Where is the end to the tax breaks for the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of the people in this Nation?

I think clarity is really important at this moment, because there are lots of folks on Capitol Hill who think it is OK to play political games with the debt ceiling.

I won't work, and we will default. Other than that it is a spiffy idea.

I will yield 3 minutes to the chair--to the ranking member, if that is possible?

Nobody should ever contemplate willfully forcing the Treasury to default in this fashion. Anyone who does is unfit for any public office in the United States.

This is designed--and again, I want to commend the Chair and the Ranking Member Ruiz for making sure that we move down a path together.

So that effectively the costs--the consequential cost of that, 2 million people, very, very substantial number, in my view probably in excess of the savings that would purportedly be made.

Not only here, but throughout the healthcare delivery system, what the pandemic showed us, what a critical shortage we have in almost every discipline in terms of healthcare.

It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.

This, for lack of a better term, has scared the hell out of me.

Education is an investment in skill development.

I am very concerned about the cuts to the extramural grants that will adversely affect the inclination of people to go into basic biomedical research. I think it is a crisis, and we will see other countries going past us very quickly in…

I think we've got to pursue both of those paths if we are ever to get the truth.

I think the larger point here, based on your response to that first question about growth and profits, is corporations have a decision as to whether or not they are going to pocket more for profit, which they can, or provide higher wages…

I was one of the 161 who voted to eliminate it.

The States pick up the slack, the local communities. That is where education decisions should be made.