"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."
"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."
"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..."
"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 oversi..."
"I really have had the desire to try to work in a bipartisan way, especially when we approach foreign policy."
"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."
"Now is the time for Article 1 to really reemerge."
"This subcommittee will work closely with the full committee and other subcommittees to exercise our role."
"It is certainly my desire and my intent, working with the ranking member, Mr. Zeldin, for us to approach this in a bipartisan way."
"I do not view foreign policy and our strategic aims through a lens of partisanship..."