George Miller

Higher education costs have been shifted increasingly to students and families.

I think the institutions have to play a role here too in terms of guidance about what really happens at the end of this process.

States' falling support for higher education has caused tuition to go up well above inflation.

The horrific events at Newtown, Connecticut shook our nation's conscience and continue to do so today.

Sandy Hook is an event that calls on us as policymakers to do something--not just to prevent the next mass murder.

Common sense strategies are needed to keep guns out of the hands of those who intend harm.

It is also an event that in its magnitude reminds us that violence against children is an everyday occurrence in this country.

To call what happened at Sandy Hook a tragedy is not to do it justice. It is beyond tragedy.

Representative George Miller's Amendment to the Student Success Act (H.R. 3989, 112th Cong.), which would track school discipline rates as an indicator of school improvement in persistently low-achieving schools, is a promising example.

The horrific event in Newtown, Connecticut shook our nation's conscience and continues to do so today.

To call what happened at Sandy Hook a tragedy is to not do it justice. It is beyond tragedy.

A school must be a place where children feel secure so that they can focus on learning, growing, and being kids.

Mr. Chairman, again, thank you very much for the hearing. I think you heard from our members how important they thought this was.

Nothing can be more disturbing. Nothing can be more enraging, or more despairing than the mass execution of little children.

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are among the nation's most vulnerable in the current employment and economic climate.

I have always been all about equity. That is why I threw my cards in with President Bush and John Boehner.

I think that the testimony here this morning suggests this is the best opportunity to provide that equity that we have seen as a nation in our history for these children.

I think this is probably one of the most valuable hearings we have had in a long time.

This is an uncertainty that is being generated by the very Congress who could do something about it.

Governing from one artificially created crisis to another is no way to instill certainty for business or the confidence of consumers.

We are running this government on a 90-day leash.

I think we see or is talked about in the unemployment market, after people are unemployed 6 months or more, they start to lose proficiency.

The policy of leaping from fiscal cliff to fiscal cliff is holding the jobs and the American economy hostage to that political decision.

What America's economy needs is growth and not manufactured double-dip and triple-dip recessions.

The American people expect this body to try and to find common ground.