Mark Takano

It is frustrating to be a member of Congress and not be able to say, fix this thing and have it fixed.

I am proud to have started the first deaf caucus in the Congress.

I thank the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Kirkpatrick) for introducing H.R. 2942, which will have an important impact on the lives of our servicemen and -women separating from the military. I also want to extend my thanks to Chairman…

I want to begin by thanking Chairman Miller of the full committee and Ranking Member Michaud of the full committee for their bipartisan efforts in seeking to address allegations made regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs wait lists.

Our veterans deserve the best and we will continue to work hard for them and their families.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I was pleased to hear some of the testimony so far about how veterans can use their military experience to find meaningful work in the energy sector.

We have introduced legislation to require schools to disaggregate and disseminate data on student veterans.

But you view it as an important piece of consumer information that the student should understand?

I want to congratulate the University of North Carolina and the intention to comply with the role of providing veterans with in-state tuition for the University of North Carolina.

How do you ensure that the system is not being flooded with false complaints?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.

This hearing will give us an opportunity to delve deeper into the findings from the recently released project done by SVA.

Do you think making it very user friendly for the student to be able--I mean, I think that is an important consumer information to make that user friendly.

I have not heard that you said they are actually lowering the rate, but I would be interested in that information. I am not convinced that the for profit sector is really serving our veterans.

The findings shed light on the amount of time it takes student veterans to complete higher education programs.

And while these sugar donors are throwing 10s of millions of dollars away on campaign ads in select toss-up districts, regular, hardworking Americans are struggling just to keep their heads above water. For our country to move forward and…

My amendment would prevent Federal student aid for veterans, including post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, from being used by colleges for marketing and recruiting purposes. A Senate Health Committee report showed that many for-profits used more…

Career education programs--programs of less than 2 years that are designed to prepare students for direct entry into a specific profession--too often fail our student veterans. Many of these programs at for-profit schools leave our student…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding time to debate the rule. Pop quiz. There is a piece of legislation that will give more than 25 million Americans a pay raise, bring nearly 1 million Americans out of poverty, and lower total…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise…

Do you believe that the concurrent enrollment and the early college and the middle college strategies could have an impact on lowering the cost of education of middle-class families?

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to see the Ryan budget with all its cuts to education pass the House.

As you know, a lot of these strategies require a counterintuitive approach, which is actually we have got to reduce class sizes at the secondary level in order to enable the seminar-style teaching that some of the pedagogy requires.

The Republican budget put together by Chairman Ryan is one of the world's worst vanity projects. It doesn't actually help the American people. It simply fulfills Mr. Ryan's ideological fantasies. I want a budget that will grow our economy…