I can tell you, Mr. Secretary, this subcommittee and our committee, and I hope the Congress, will continue to be fully supportive of the maximum Pell grant.

I would point out, of the $77.4 billion request for fiscal year 2012, $28.6 billion is for Pell grants.

I want to continue to reward courage, to incentivize that.

It's a proven strategy many Governors have taken up, and we're seeing success in Ohio, especially in biosciences and healthcare.

We have to think about what the Federal responsibility is there.

the goal of all of us who tried to carry out our responsibilities to support the very best biomedical research is to utilize the tools of peer review

I've introduced legislation--the SECTORS Act--that would amend WIA to create dedicated capacity for sector partnerships.

The President's budget includes $46 million to combat worker misclassification.

Thanks to your leadership, we are at a time of unprecedented hope for patients with these diseases.

Thank you.

I agree with you that that particular kind of way of tying NIH's hands would be very unfortunate.

Congress was not acting, we need to do something to make a massive amount of people that came here illegally to make them legal.

Over the past month, I have been investigating serious allegations regarding Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the allegations that thousands of guns were intentionally allowed to flow through known straw purchasers near the…

Yet as we look at the Department of Homeland Security today, we see agencies failing to coordinate with one another, breakdowns in judgments, and failures to protect our Government's own agents on the front lines.

Did you ever discuss with anyone anything similar to the strategy described by whistleblowers in this case, that of allowing guns to walk to make a bigger case against the cartels?

I would like to ask you how you feel about the fact that another agency's decision to put hundreds of guns into the hands of criminals on both sides of the border may have contributed to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

it makes it practically impossible for Congress to do its oversight work

I sent a letter on Friday asking for a copy of the use of force policy. Would you be able to provide that to us very soon?