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We've got to re-think education, right? Both in the K through 12 space, but also our 4-year education graduate degrees.

If you think about my own story, my parents came from India in the 1950s to get their education at USC, and then they stayed.

We stopped doing that in the mid-80s and 1990s, and, you know, it--and we're living off of the residual, in California, of those investments--we made in the 1960s and 1970s.

I am confident that at the end of this Congress a couple years from now, a year and a half from now or so, we are going to be able to have real product, maybe in legislative form, maybe through oversight, that will help strengthen America.

This subcommittee will work closely with the full committee and other subcommittees to exercise our role.

Foreign policy best is done in a bipartisan way and that the best foreign policy at our best is when the executive branch is working closely with the legislative branch.

if we are authorizing and appropriating funds for programs I do think it is part of our responsibility to say are these programs actually working the way they are--are we using the taxpayer dollars in the most effective way.

I really have had the desire to try to work in a bipartisan way, especially when we approach foreign policy.

It is certainly my desire and my intent, working with the ranking member, Mr. Zeldin, for us to approach this in a bipartisan way.

Now is the time for Article 1 to really reemerge.

I do not view foreign policy and our strategic aims through a lens of partisanship...

The President in every possible instance shall consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities.

I'm proud to be a Californian. I'm a lifelong Californian.

let's not be afraid of setting these aspirational goals.

But our Framers, by their genius and design, created separation of powers, keeping the Nation's purse and sword separate.

aspirational goals are not things that we should shy away from as the United States.

Aspirational goals are not things that we should shy away from as the United States.

Let's not be afraid of setting these aspirational goals.

Today, on Twitter, President Trump threatened to withhold FEMA disaster money from California. Mr. Speaker, maybe the President doesn't know what FEMA disaster funding goes for. It helps rebuild homes. It helps folks rebuild schools…

I appreciate the lifetime of service of our diplomats and our aid and development workers all around the world.

Thank you for calling this hearing on 60 years of NASA leadership in human space exploration, past, present, and future.

In many ways that led to my interest in science.

It's also--when I--we think about the present, it's not that often we get four senior-level NASA Administrators and the folks that are really on the forefront here.

I thank my good friend from Arizona (Mr. O'Halleran) for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of our amendment to H.R. 1635. Our amendment is simple. It would ensure that student borrowers are provided information about the full…

I am glad that this body and this country is taking this epidemic seriously.