George Miller

I think your department has done an amazing job in working with patients, with insurance companies, with hospitals, with doctors...

We think the Affordable Care Act will, in the long-term, lower those health care costs to businesses, families and to our economy.

The Affordable Care Act is already working to put Medicare on stronger financial footing.

We never said we could change everything that's wrong with our health care system, or fix things as fast as people would like.

Proper implementation of this historic reform is vitally important.

Importantly, there is a bipartisan consensus that the law in this area needs updating.

The need for robust federal investments in the nation's workforce is readily apparent.

We need to demand greater accountability for those investments.

We must not turn our backs on those who may need the most help from a workforce investment system.

We must not turn our backs on those who are in the most need of help from the workforce investment system.

Today, the committee meets to examine a bill to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act. This is no small matter.

We shouldn't ask low-income and middle-class Americans to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while simultaneously delivering massive tax breaks to the richest one percent.

I agree with you and President Obama that education is the cornerstone of economic security for individuals and for our country as a whole.

However well-intentioned, the Ryan plan is flawed and will create a significant burden on our ability to compete in a global economy by, among other things, balancing the budget on the backs of America's students.

The higher education proposals outlined in the president's budget represent another expansion of federal authority that I fear will ultimately lead to more headaches for students, parents, and institutions.

The Republican budget is also devastating to higher education. It slashes the Pell Grant program.

Before we get into a debate about whether or not we are going to increase funding for IDEA we can see if we can get bipartisan support to erase the $2 billion cut that is in that category in the Republican budget.

It is simply unfathomable to me that we would ask a generation of students to pay the price for adult political dysfunction.

It has to be a shared responsibility.

Improving education in America is a priority for everyone in this room.

So these governors who are racing forward--the chief State schools officers who are racing forward to embrace innovation, to embrace these new opportunities, to empower their teachers, to improve their teachers, to evaluate the performance…

Education is the cornerstone of economic security for individuals and for our country.

We should be investing in this system. Instead, the Republican budget cuts Title I, denying critical support to thousands of schools and millions of children.

Education failures pose several threats to our national security.

Passage of the Ryan budget would propel educational success of this country backwards for years to come.