Mark DeSaulnier

I am becoming more and more of one [a States' rights advocate].

I'm not asking for anything from the Federal Government.

I am afraid that historians will look back in our policy towards corrections and look at it like Michelle Alexander expressed in The New Jim Crow, that this is a period clearly driven by policy that had a lot to do with fear and racism.

So just on the issue of perception, perception being important, obviously, you have put some thought into this.

The importance of the integrity of the voting process is obviously supreme for all of us sitting in this room.

I wish this was purely bipartisan. I know there to be some arguments, but I think getting regulations for the general public right, and that includes the business community.

Shutting down the website on the first day of enrollment period... would only serve to hurt our customers.

I hope that the testimony... shows that agencies are making decisions based on facts and not ideology.

I strive to bring that mindset to Congress as well.

I'm particularly troubled by recent administrative moves to undermine... health protections.

I wish it could be clearer. I share that with the majority party.

you don't want the pitchforks to be coming after you, that some of the social displacement that your innovation is causing, you've got to be part of the solution.

I think that's a great answer.

I want to thank you and the ranking member for this hearing. It's a wonderful follow-up to the meeting I was -- meetings that I was happy to be part of in the Bay Area when you came out.

I represent a part of California, a part of the Bay area that has a heavy concentration of our industrial belt.

Graduation rates started increasing. As a result, since 2000, 2.8 million more kids have graduated.

Despite promises to implement the law as Congress intended, Secretary DeVos and President Trump proposed the elimination of bedrock ESEA programs.

If we had just continued to do what we knew is the right things to invest in 30 years ago for the past 30 years, we wouldn't have an achievement gap.

ESSA is not - and never has been - a free for all, and it is the responsibility of the Department, as articulated by Congress in ESSA, to carefully scrutinize the quality of state plans and only approve those that meet the law's…

Elimination of Title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and state efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports - defunding this program most certainly does not align with the bipartisan…

Elimination of title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and State efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports.

Over 35,000 Americans lost their lives, one every 15 minutes. This is the largest increase over a 1-year period in 50 years of recordkeeping.

We need to provide a workforce for global economy that is changing at warp speed.

Lastly, Trumpcare's proposed cuts to Medicaid, if enacted, will devastate services for students with disabilities and undermine state and local efforts to educate all students to high standards, as required by ESSA.

We need to find out what changed, or what the difference was, because it was a clear, unequivocal response to a question I asked him.