George Miller

President Obama believes that the federal government has an important role to play as well.

We cannot afford the disastrous across-the-board cuts known as budget sequestration to take effect next year.

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

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

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.

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

Absent the subpoena power and absent some kind of whistleblower protection, what you described here this morning is just a continued cat and mouse game.

We have consistently said that people like Don Blankenship, and I have called for him to be led away in chains and locked up in jail because that is where he deserves to be.

The families of miners are sick of watching lower level employees take the fall for upper management.

If that means legislation, and I believe it does, then legislation should be passed.

What happened at UBB is absolutely criminal.

I don't want a silver bullet, I want an effective tool.

So once again, we are left here because of some glitch in the law, some failure to get from one point to the other.

Thank you for your leadership in response to this tragedy, and rebuilding the resources in MSHA so we don't have to go through this again hopefully ever again.

If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything, anything other than run coal such as build overcasts, you need to ignore them and run coal.

He was an uncompromising voice for the disadvantaged, and for the powerless, and the disenfranchised.

Just an amazing advocate on behalf of the disenfranchised, and his passion on this committee for Head Start and early childhood education...

I commend the president for highlighting in his State of the Union address the confusing maze of job training programs.

We have found areas of agreement in the past, including expanding free trade and extending tax relief.

The crisis was turned around in large part because of the actions taken by the Obama administration.

Bold action laid the groundwork for the economic recovery. By working together for the good of the economy, we stopped the hemorrhaging and laid the tracks for a return to economic growth.

employment obviously continues to be a big problem with respect to our returning veterans

I am pleased to report that the House Democratic Caucus has assigned Congresswoman Marcia Fudge to the Education and the Workforce Committee.

It is with a great, deep sense of sadness that we remember our friend and colleague, Donald Payne.

I am a proud co-author of that law.