Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chair, the greatest strength of this body is that we represent constituents who send us here knowing that we are constrained in protecting their rights because we are limited by what we can and cannot do by that great document, the…

Mr. Chair, under the Institute of Education Sciences, they will establish two research networks, the pre-kindergarten through grade 12 recovery research network and the community college recovery research network to study pandemic events…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, which strikes funding for the Institute of Education Sciences. The current funding in the fiscal year 2024 bill is $707 million. The institute puts this funding toward programs such…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 144, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $707,372,000)''. Page 195, line…

Mr. Chairman, nobody wants to revoke postsecondary education. What we want to do is acknowledge what the Federal Government has done to distort the cost of education. The New York Fed itself has said it is eating it up, and 60 percent of…

Mr. Chair, it is a shame that people make aspersions on the floor when they don't know anything about a subject. I think of Grand Canyon University and the 35,000 students on campus, on a physical plant, in Phoenix, Arizona. I just heard…

Mr. Chair, I am going to respond to the ``scurrilous'' comments made in the last statement. Nothing in my amendment addressed online, for-profit private colleges, postsecondary. That was a deliberate mischaracterization of what I said…

Will the gentlewoman yield? Ms. DeLAURO. No, I am sorry, I won't.----in order to be able to support an online, for-profit industry that is bilking America's students and, in many instances, America's veterans. It is really pretty…

Mr. Chair, I ask my friends: Do you support a tax on private Christian universities by the Department of Education, the very Department that I am trying to defund? When you talk about the American Dream, student loan debt is crushing…

Mr. Chair, GCU's degree program calculator provides the total estimated cost for a 60-credit doctoral program the exact same way it does for other degree programs. That is not required under the Department of Education, but the Department…

Mr. Chair, I rise to speak in support of my amendment that would strike funding for the Student Aid Administration. The Student Aid Administration provides funding for the government to administer student financial assistance programs…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 140, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,769,207,000)''. Page 195…

Mr. Chair, what is driving the increased costs of tuition? Well, most of that is because the bureaucratization of academia. That drives costs higher every year. Let's go back to that 2017 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York…

Mr. Chair, as it stands today, Americans owe over $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, more than 5 percent of the Nation's total $33 trillion debt. The annual cost of attendance for students living on campus at a public 4-year State…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of my amendment that would cut funding for the student financial assistance account by $9.25 billion. The student financial assistance account is being funded at $22 billion for fiscal year 2024. This…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 140, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $9,250,000,000)''. Page 195…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 142, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,767,239,000)''. Page 142…