Mr. President, I rise in strong support of the President's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate has no more important responsibility than to advise and consent on…

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There is absolutely no excuse for fraudulent behavior or misleading students about the quality of education they are going to get.

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I'd like to thank the panel and thank you Mr. Chairman for letting me go over.

One of the challenges, I think, that we are going to face, and that the DOE is going to face is that it's so difficult to monitor every individual transaction that occurs.

I want to hear your honest thought about it.

Was the figure I heard. Six to ten?

We need institutions that bring students who have historically been left out of higher education into the fold.

Do you think they're resourced adequately to do that?

It would help, but I don't think it would fix the problem.

And this is out of a total of how many?

To what extent can some of the issues that he's raising be solved through better public disclosure?

How many have been put on probation over the last 2 years?

We should hold those wrongdoers accountable, and then determine what needs to be done to prevent this kind of exploitative behavior from recurring.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Pruyn I want to start with you by first saying thank you for coming all this way from Colorado for this testimony and for your courage in speaking out.

It seems to me it's in everybody's interests, the students, the schools, the taxpayers certainly, that people have access to this kind of information.

The benefits, as they are now established, will simply be unaffordable to go on into the future.