I just--again, count me as a great supporter of Job Corps.

I recently introduced, with Senators Harkin, Blumenthal, and Franken, the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act (S. 770) which would protect workers from being misclassified as independent contractors.

if these men were doing the same job as nondisabled people, they should have been paid the same rates.

we want to get to the bottom of that.

But, the cost to society of not doing that, I submit to you, will be 10, 20, 30 times that much--the cost to society--if we don't do that.

I've been working on sector partnership workforce training strategies for 4 years, along with Senator Olympia Snowe.

This case just shocks the conscience. Just shocks the conscience.

I think it's very important for us to understand that Social Security is a real safety-net program for this country.

It seems to me this is about as important as Gleevec. I mean, this attacks metastatic melanoma in later stages.

What's the name of the drug? I forget.

I believe the combined Federal, State, and local budget cuts pose a grave threat--let me repeat that--pose a grave threat to education reform efforts across the country just as those efforts are reaching critical mass.

At the same time, education remains a priority for the Administration due to the critical importance of our education system for our continued economic prosperity.

We are looking forward to the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) so that low-skilled adults and individuals with disabilities have access to the education and training they need to be successful in the 21st century…

we have to keep that maximum Pell Grant at $5,550.

That is coming from Governors and chief State school officers having the courage to do the right thing.

So, I guess we have a choice to make. Do we cut these kids off at the knees?

I could not agree more.

It is an invasion into the programs that we have developed to help poor kids get a decent education.