Mr. President, when it comes to doing oversight, I think I have a reputation of doing just as vigorous oversight when we have Republican Presidents as when we have Democratic Presidents, and what I am speaking to the Senate about today has…

This should not be acceptable to those of us who are stewards of taxpayers' dollars.

Let me be clear, rising student loan debt is a problem for students throughout higher education.

your perceptive question goes to the very heart of the business model of many of the for-profit institutions that we have investigated.

the poorer you are the more you get and the more you then turn over to the school.

It is cruel, it is unjust and ultimately it is immoral.

We should be assisting them, not looking for ways to enhance more profits for Wall Street investors.

I think it is a first step. It is a modest first step, granted.

I believe it is clear that more needs to be done to ensure that taxpayer dollars are being used wisely.

Their commitment is not to those students. The commitment is to the profit side and somehow that has to be righted.

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 16, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 7, line 13, after the first dollar amount, insert the following: ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment goes in and strikes out a million dollars and inserts that million dollars back in again and directs that, in our dialogue here in the Congressional Record, for the purpose of taking out the lookout points, the…

Mr. Chairman, I had an amendment on page 12. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Iowa should be advised that the reading has progressed beyond that point in the bill. Does the gentleman have an amendment to this portion of the bill?

Mr. Chairman, this amendment is an amendment that strikes $1 million and puts a million back in. It's an amendment that has been before this Congress before. It's one that supports the Shadow Wolves, and the Shadow Wolves are a part of…

Madam Chair, I rise in support of the Gosar amendment, the amendment that eliminates a requirement for Davis-Bacon within the funds of this appropriations bill. I don't know another Member of Congress that has lived under Davis-Bacon. I…

It's in Kiron, Iowa. It's been there since 1975. And we are a second-generation company.

I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.