I learned very early in my Marine training that there are two types of courage: physical and moral.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Usually, one's healthcare is not top of mind, until it is. This, Madam Speaker, is one of those times. We have to protect people's healthcare, men and women, whether it is battling the coronavirus…

There are 240,000 defrauded students waiting for student loan relief. Over 40,000 of those students are from my home State of California. After doing nothing for students who have been defrauded by predatory colleges, the Department has…

For weeks, people across the country have been protesting in the streets, demanding justice for George Floyd, for Breonna Taylor, and for a countless number of people killed by police. Sadly, incidents like these are something that our…

I want to thank you, Madam Under Secretary Lord, very much because I know that you have been working 24/7 at this, and we all greatly appreciate that.

What we are trying to do is send a strong demand signal that we want domestic production.

I look around this room and see that everyone here is deeply committed to the mission of giving everyone in this country a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

Few people can afford the time or money to dedicate weeks or months to a pre-apprenticeship program without income to support themselves and their families.

the Registered Apprenticeship system has a proven potential to reach hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American workers.

We want to give that conversation a fresh look and acknowledge that we need to do a better job of ensuring that people... understand the many pathways they have to accessing the high-quality lifelong learning opportunities that…

I would hope that given the Trump administration's Stated interest in growing apprenticeships, it will embrace the opportunity to meaningfully scale up Registered Apprenticeships systems through this bill.

There was a United States senator once from Illinois named Barack Obama who got into the SAFETEA-LU Bill that you could use a half a percent of your SAFETEA-LU money to build the road construction work force of the future, women, people of…