Political Quotes

“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 graduates, which is why when you look at polling, it indicates very clearly that young graduates do not believe they will attain the American Dream that their parents had access to. They are coming out with crushing student debt at the same time that that same Department is trying to crush very fine universities. Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, the gentleman wants to cut and wants to privatize higher education. He wants to send students to the for-profit colleges where there is a raft of information about how they are harming college students, and he wants to provide funding for the for- profit online program management companies, profiteers. That is who these folks are. It is everywhere. We know it. The data is rife with how they have created terrible situations for young people, and even those who are older, by shutting down, leaving these people with a bill, about not providing a credential so that people can get jobs. They are a menace on our education system.…”