Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce.

I want to thank Chair Baldwin for working together, bipartisan, and the success of our process depends on finding common ground.

I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long.

Sir, I thank you for your service. I just want to say again on Jessie's Law that has been a long time in coming, okay, and the family they are just hanging on, needles and pins, just waiting for it to be completed. They want to save lives…

Federal education spending should support States in policies that afford the greatest opportunity for kids to learn and achieve academically.

One out of every three franchise owners say they wouldn't own a small business without the franchise business model.

Do you have a firm and affirmative oversight plan to make sure that, you know, you are redirecting funds if somebody has got an idea that is not going to work let us move on?

Thank you, Chair Baldwin.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

The NIH should trust that researchers will hire the most qualified personnel and focus on partnering with entities that maximize the quality of their research.

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

the discontinuation of the WVPRC gives me great concern that the unique issues facing WV and Appalachia will be greatly diminished going forward.

I mean, I would recommend this, put this on the front of your page on best way to deal with anti-semitism on campus.

West Virginia needs fewer inefficient and expensive regulations and more job creation.

In my view, the best way to keep our retirees... is to have the maximum financial benefit accrue to their plans.

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

The Department of Labor should be focused on workforce training and creating new jobs, not mandating new burdens.

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.