I hope that we can count on your active support and the support of the administration in getting this emergency funding through because it is an emergency.

We must remember that education begins at birth and that preparation for education begins before birth.

We have to make sure we don't go south. We have to make sure we are not seeing hundreds of thousands of people laid off.

But this is going to have to be changed, in my view.

I wonder from whose schoolchildren we are going to borrow this money? Because we have a looming debt crisis in our country, and we will need to debate this.

I think it would be better if we are going to take it over and create so-called 'savings' if we give the students the savings.

Secretary Duncan, thank you very much for your testimony and for answering questions.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Look forward to working with you.

I support this bill and ask all to support for the teachers, the principals, the counselors, school nurses, and other essential public school employees that are losing their jobs.

I applaud members of the House of Representatives for including an additional $23 billion in education aid through the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) in the Jobs for Main Street Act, which passed in December.

The education jobs crisis is not only about adults. It is about children, who get only one shot at an education.

I want to thank you, Senator Harkin, for your leadership in introducing a similar bill in the Senate this week.

My colleagues back home asked me to come here to deliver a strong message--please act now to approve additional Federal aid targeted to help avert the looming layoffs that will reach into almost every Iowa community, threatening our…

Teachers are not the problem here. We are the solution.

the Federal Government is really giving with one hand and taking away with another because the new healthcare bill, between 2014 and 2019, is going to add between $1.1 billion and $1.5 billion of costs, most of which will have to come out…

what we are really doing with this Federal takeover of the student loan program is borrowing money from 19 million students.

to support State and local efforts to help children learn what it means to be an American and finding a dedicated stream of funding for that.

Do we have to do anything legislatively, Dr. Collins?