I appreciate having the Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chair, Shelley Capito, as a cosponsor of the legislation.

To me, however, college affordability is probably one of the top priorities we need to be focused on.

I have worked across the aisle, with my colleague Michael Grimm, to introduce the Federal Adjustment in Reporting Student Credit Act.

That continuity--especially when it might be a teacher or a counselor or someone else who is the one adult who is being constant in their life. That is just so important.

It's important to keep them in the same school, or give them that option, because, very often, the one constant in their lives is the school.

I believe it is time for the FCC to take concrete steps to make sure that all wireless callers can be located by 911 centers.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this important hearing to discuss the importance of improving 911 location accuracy.

income inequality in the United States has been growing for more than three decades and is now near a record high.

We are making progress, but there is still more work to do.

I am looking for some common ground here.

I think it is a nice end here.

And one of the most striking graphs that you had was that bridge graph where you showed, right before the Great Depression, that there was this high amount of inequality, and then it got better, and then it's coming up again, and here we…

I think we know there is a problem.

70 percent of our economy is consumer based, and if people do not have enough money to buy stuff it slows the entire economy down.

I think we should implement the Buffett Rule, applying a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on people making more than $1 million a year.

the top 400 people in this country have more wealth than half of America.

Raising the minimum wage would be a good start.

I think that this is an issue that we must address in our country.