Jared Polis

I believe that all students should have access to outstanding teachers.

And I think for too long decisions have been made based on, you know, who has the slickest marketing, or what was trendy at the time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Want to address a question to--the first question to Dr. Peske.

In my view, the federal government, states, and institutions can do more to improve the quality of teacher preparation programs and ensure that they are adequately funded.

Research clearly shows that the most important factor in the education of a child is teacher quality, followed by school leadership.

Our system for preparing teachers is falling short.

There is no more important school-level factor influencing our children's education than the quality of our teaching force.

The most important factor is a teacher in the classroom, but the data bears out that there is no more important school-level factor that influences a child's education than the quality of the teacher that they have.

I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) for purposes of a colloquy.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question so we can deal with one of these pressing issues that my colleagues from Florida and other States have made a compelling case for here on the floor of the House today in…

I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I would like to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings), my colleague on the Rules Committee.

I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Frankel).

It is my honor to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the Democratic whip.

Before I further yield, I want to clarify: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is already prohibited from collecting personally identifiable information in the course of its market- monitoring responsibilities to make sure that…

I thank the chair. I yield to the ranking member, Mr. DeFazio. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I congratulate Mr. Polis and Congressman Kildee, who is detained at the White House, for offering this amendment…

I will be happy to say on the record that the better team on that particular day won. There is still some doubt about whether that was, in fact, the Denver Broncos that took the field.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and defeat the previous question. The Senate has passed a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration bill, and the Senate is debating unemployment insurance. Meanwhile, the House hasn't dedicated a single…

On this 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, 1.4 million Americans have lost emergency unemployment insurance and thousands more stand to lose it each day, each week, that Congress fails to act. If we defeat the previous question, I…

I would remind the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) that this particular rule has two closed rules on two of the three bills. With that, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Again the gentleman said there is a risk of information being taken from the healthcare.gov site. There is potential risk from any site. But every day, there are tens of thousands of American identities being stolen because of this body's…

Each of those deportations, Mr. Speaker, cost you and I, cost American taxpayers, approximately $15,000. So guess who is paying for the 2 million deportations? Guess what is one of the growing causes of our deficit spending? Our broken…

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino), an original sponsor of the underlying bill that I introduced with him 2 weeks ago and a cosponsor of this amendment.

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz), a cosponsor of the amendment.

I would point out that very little of the arguments made by the gentleman from California were related to this particular amendment. Much of that was stuff that may have been loosely related to the overall bill. I yield 1 minute to the…