Now, how are we going to pay for it? That is the bottom line.
I was very pleased that Senator Reid's plan would virtually close the Pell shortfall for the next 2 years.
I am sure it is a concern of the two colleagues of mine.
The unsustainable growth in the costs of the Pell Grant program continues to be an anchor dragging down the entire budget for the Department...
But it holds promise for the people with cystic fibrosis and their families.
That would herald, if it were approved by FDA--It's in clinical trials now.
However, our Nation is $14 trillion in debt, and I think we must rein in spending.
But they are not the only part of the education part.
Mr. Secretary, as we think of Pell grants, do we not have to think of them in the overall budget process of the Department of Education?
we cannot starve the future. We cannot starve our children of food and sustenance. We cannot starve them of an education.
But if you cannot have it all, and you cannot--I wish you could, and I wish that I were here when we owed no money as a Nation, because I th...