if you grow up in our State and you're low-income, you can go to community college for free.

So there's another great consensus--one loan, one grant, one tax credit, but redesigned for the 21st century.

I think one part of the rating system is going to have to take into account peer institutions with similar amounts of resources and student backgrounds to have some sense of what is possible, given there are multiple challenges those…

And I think it would be a worthy project for this committee if we were able to actually get rid of that document.

That ought to be job No. 1, to figure out whether people--put the politics aside--whether people sitting at their kitchen table can decide and evaluate for themselves whether this is a better deal or not for them.

What are the implications for your timelines with respect to eligibility, signup, and all the rest if you don't get this Web site fully functional by the end of the month or the end of--yes, this month?

I hope, as we go forward, that we don't lose sight of the fact that government does not do a great job with procurement, with IT, or with customer service.

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No. I think it is very clear, and Ronald Reagan shared this view--you quoted him earlier--that this would just make matters worse.

people in Colorado, they are sick and tired of a lot of things about Washington, but what they are mostly sick and tired of is our managing by crisis

Students should not have to leverage their futures with mountains of debt in order to pursue the American dream.