Do you think it makes any sense, though, for us to be cutting off Medicaid when you have a population in a jail where 100 out of 115 people are addicted to opioids?

Is there anybody on this panel who thinks that a jail cell is an appropriate place to do treatment for opioid addiction, or a preferred place to do treatment for opioid addiction?

Last year there were 442 deaths in Colorado related to opioid overdoses.

I really appreciate the gentleman's efforts to be able to highlight the threat from wildfires that we are having in the West. Mr. Speaker, in recent weeks, the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have dominated our news cycles. Our…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I believe Americans are compassionate people. I also believe Americans are angered by injustice, and I know Americans are eager to protect the defenseless. In a…

When we look back on the history of the Vietnam War in, I think in August of 1969, President Nixon orders a Vietnamization program in sort of a phased withdraw as the army of South Vietnam gains capability.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this hearing and for having such an excellent panel.

Our goal was to have an attractive program.

In my home State of New Hampshire, we have focused a great deal on state flexibility and competency-based assessments and we are proud of that work.

In Colorado, we are seeing two different things happening with teachers.

We issued a report on the rural teacher shortage last week, actually, and have a plan moving forward to address it.

Thank you for the question.

I wonder whether you can address, Tim Kaine asked you earlier, about how to attract teachers to high poverty schools.

I think all of us would agree, we have too many states that do not have any data that is of quality before third grade to know whether kids are actually on track or not.

We should have a thoughtful move forward, but I do not think we need to... let the perfect get in the way of the good enough.

We also do not want the highly imperfect to be the enemy of the imperfect either.

We have no legislative language; we have not seen legislation.

I think in the 9-page proposal, there are roughly 200 words, I think, devoted to international taxation.