The worker protection measures that you have talked about are heartwarming. It's about time that we recognize what has happened in the past.

I have a great picture of us throwing shovels of dirt in the air at the Job Corps Center.

I think, it's just one of the good things that our Nation does, is to forcefully go out and work with International Labor Organization and the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC).

I tend to lean more toward looking at child labor, because they have no one to stick up for them.

So a lot of times we think about Medicare fraud and abuse, waste, you know you think well, there's somebody out there, some person out there that's putting in for something that they shouldn't get.

That's very reassuring.

I might point out I have my Franklin Roosevelt tie on today, as a reminder of what we are about to witness, and the momentous occasion that's going to take place this morning with President Obama signing the healthcare bill into law.

I am committed to achieving the goal of Good Jobs for Everyone, and I look forward to working with the members of this subcommittee to make that vision a reality.

Believe me, I've been in a lot of these countries, I've looked at this--what they are doing, and I can't think of anything that gives a better face for America and what we're about in the world than trying to ensure that children are…

I'm hopeful that sometime soon the Congress will be able to appropriate some money for summer youth employment.

We must act soon. We must act soon.

That could be phenomenal.

We are still about $5.7 billion short in the Pell Grant program.

The status quo is not acceptable, and it is not acceptable during economic downturns to say that we are just going to take a lot of this out of the hide of education.

I can't think of a more important thing to do in the immediate timeframe than that.

That is why later today I will introduce a bill--the Keep Our Educators Working Act.

We are going to do everything we can, and I am going to ask for your help and the President's help in getting this done.

Thank you very much, Mr. Cortines.