Jared Polis

Since 1973 the Endangered Species Act has rescued dozens of species from extinction, helped more than 2,000 threatened species throughout the country.

As a previous member of the Committee, I was very interested in joining this conversation, and continue to be, about the importance of the Endangered Species Act.

How can States deal with this uncertainty around the use of funds for teacher and professional development and classroom size reduction that are already included in their plans if the funding goes away?

No one here voted to let States and school districts fail when we passed the Every Student Succeeds Act.

To discuss our proposal, I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Rosen).

What can be done to support the continuity between early learning and K-12? What more can we do in our state and nationally?

Strong investments - at the local, state, and federal levels - in early learning will make an enormous positive difference for our future.

The lack of availability and the rising cost of childcare hits working families especially hard.

I just want to express the dissatisfaction of the Democrats and we obviously are not ready to discuss the GAO report because we have not read it.

Support for public investment to make quality early childhood education a reality for every child has broad support from across the political spectrum.

Frankly, the debate about the efficacy of early learning is over. It is simply undeniable that high-quality early childhood education has lifelong benefits for kids.

As lawmakers, I hope that my colleagues join me in finding this unacceptable.

Support for early childhood education expands across the ideological spectrum.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of this hearing highlighting the importance of early childhood programs.

I do want to highlight actually what our Chair was talking about with Dr. Stevens is the Race to the Top, Early Childhood Learning Challenge Grant Programs.

Noble Prize winning economist James Heckman estimates that society receives $7.30 in benefits for every dollar invested in high-quality early learning programs for at risk kids.

What can we do at the local, state, and federal level to support early childhood teachers and try to establish a greater respect and support for the profession?

Despite the nearly unanimous findings about early learning, our country ranks third-to-last amongst all developed nations for enrollment of three- to five-year olds.

I will be happy to supply those. To be clear, the entire school doesn't close, just the gym closes.

Exactly. What I would further add, then, is whose prerogative is it to institute this kind of cap: States like our own State of Colorado, which has that cap? Or Washington, D.C. insiders behind closed doors? I yield to the gentleman from…

I would like to inquire of my friend from Colorado whether recognizing those savings is in fact a Federal responsibility or a State responsibility. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.

I was glad my colleague pointed out that it violates the Seventh Amendment. Now we add that to the 10th Amendment. So there are actually two Amendments. I am not even an attorney, but I know this violates two Amendments to our…

Prosecutors are lawyers as well. So I just wanted to be clear that it is not an insult. Being an attorney is a fine profession. There are some attorneys on both sides, both defending as well prosecuting criminals, but they are both…

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