"I would love to have the opportunity to talk to you or ask you if there is any consideration of an executive order to prohibit the Government contractors from retaliating against their employers--employees who disclose salary information?"
"Last year, several of us worked extremely hard to restore funding to the Job Corps that had been cut due to sequestration."
"The fact is we are somewhere about 25th, 26th, 28th amongst industrial countries."
"This has become a total bipartisan issue in the real world."
"the failure to adequately invest at the Federal level comes at a time when States are still lagging behind pre-recession education spending."
"I am hopeful that what will be able to happen is that we can encourage States to ensure that our most at-risk kids, and their parents, are given the opportunity to attend these programs."
"We just want more children in this country to have access."
"This is a birth-through-5 agenda. So we want a seamless continuum."
"First let me associate myself with my colleague, Congresswoman Roybal-Allard's comments on the Ability-to-Benefit provision."
"No investment is more critical than investment in education for our young people."
"480,000 people die every year from a tobacco-related illness."