The Navy of continuing to mischaracterize a 2009 report by the National Academy of the Sciences' National Research Council.

I am a strong, strong supporter of it.

I know our universities, our public universities have a host of online courses for the 4-year degree program.

Mr. President, it is with great pride that I recognize the dedication of the North Carolina Veterans Park. This park will give visitors the opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices made by the courageous women and men of our armed…

If you think it is going to be possible to create the bipartisan support necessary to regulate this institution, you have got to show me where the bipartisan support exists.

A veteran can easily exhaust their benefits pursuing a degree at a for-profit institution.

Our community colleges in North Carolina are the place to go for workforce training, to get that 2-year degree.

I think public education from the Pentagon is among the first things that I would try to emphasize.

I agree with you totally. In North Carolina we have 58 community colleges, most of them within a 30-minute drive of any place.

I think we need to be careful about bureaucracy and about how schools will get around the rules.

Education is key in matching skill sets with the employers.

Mr. Speaker, let me reiterate: This debate is not about our troops; it's about our Constitution. Our men and women in uniform are doing their duty by following orders. They make me and the rest of us very proud. We are a blessed Nation to…

I thank my colleague from South Carolina for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I want to say from the very beginning that Mr. McGovern and I don't often agree on issues, but we do agree that this is a very serious issue that we are…

Mr. Chairman, I simply want to add my congratulations to the pages and my great thanks to them for their service to us. They really do a tremendous amount to help this House work effectively. And I also want to say a thank you to the page…

Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to pay tribute to a lifelong friend, the Reverend Dr. Dorothy Sharpe Johnson, an accomplished pastor, educator and author who passed from labor to reward on 31 May 2011 after a long illness, a long illness…

Mr. Chairman, I want to commend our colleague from Colorado for offering this amendment and for calling attention to some of the deficiencies in the 287(g) program and some of the ways that we need to do things better. I would have wished…

At a time like this floor debate when we've had such a flurry of amendments from all sorts of sources, we realize anew how dependent we are on our staff for staying on top of all this and helping guide us, and we are very grateful to our…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. I certainly share the commitment to developing a more comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, in particular, and to the research and development budget, in general. With that, let me reiterate my…