Should you not be advocating that the President incorporate it in his infrastructure plan, that this is absolutely critical to education success?

without Federal support, they will not be effectively addressed.

I think great teachers need to be supported. I think they should be better compensated, and I think they should be treated as professionals.

the American Society of Civil Engineers gives our school facilities a D-plus rating, about a $38 billion gap between necessary repairs to bring them up to standard.

Finally, the TEACH Grant program has had tremendous servicing issues.

I am talking about prospective recruits which would rely upon or could benefit from the loan forgiveness, but if it is taken away, they might decide that going into the service is not their best option.

President Trump promised to drain the swamp. In reality, he has made corruption much worse here in Washington. Yesterday, we learned that a foreign government paid the President's personal attorney $400,000 for a meeting with President…

Indeed, this legislation is not prescriptive. It is simply, 'Tell us what you are doing.'

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I would like to begin by thanking Chairman Thornberry, Ranking Member Smith, and Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, the chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, on which…

I think there should be continuous dialog among other intelligence services, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency and our social media companies to get the kind of cooperation that is necessary.

we are much inspired by you, Mr. Chairman, and Senator Perdue and I, who are both on this Committee, are doing our best to channel your concerns and your wishes into that process.

if we could save $700 per person per year on health care expense while providing better care for people, that would be a pretty serious win-win.

You strongly criticized the Obama administration for not including issues like human rights in the nuclear deal with Iran.

The reason we fight pandemic overseas is so we don't have to fight them here at home.

This would lead to a previously unthinkable circumstance--the Government of China with a perch in the North Atlantic between the United States and Europe.

I don't think that it is helpful that we are going to be cutting the State Department's budget.

The administration's first priority was an ill-conceived reorganization effort.

Your administration has been in office for 15 months. They have done nothing to hold Iran accountable on any of this malign activity.