Rosa DeLauro

Strategic enforcement seeks to use the limited enforcement resources available to regulatory agency to protect workers.

The department is moving away from being a tough cop on the beat for workers to being an ally of industry.

I believe firmly that the Federal Government has a central role to play in addressing and combating wage theft.

Do you know whether or not the marketing or the advertising is tax deductible?

It does not just apply to for-profit schools, it applies to nondegree programs at nonprofit and public institutions.

My hope is that we will be able to talk in a subsequent round about the kinds of things that we might be able to do.

This cannot be what was intended. Students deserve better.

Thank you very, very much for your testimony.

Unfortunately, many of the key protections for students and taxpayers that the Obama administration advanced are under attack by this administration.

If you have ever sat down with one of these students and got a feeling for where they are in life after they have been defrauded by one of these colleges and universities, I think you would rise to the same level of emotion as I have on…

This is unfair, and it is fundamentally unfair the American taxpayers have to subsidize it.

Accountability and consumer protection should be extended to all institutions and to all students.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Corinthian was an example of the worst kind of predatory for-profit school.

Predatory for-profit schools have lower graduation rates and higher default rates than public and nonprofit schools.

So it is our responsibility in this arena to be sure we shine a light on those bad actors who seek to scam students and taxpayers and thereby block the door to education.

At the signing of the Higher Education Act in 1965 President Lyndon Johnson said the law would, quote, 'swing open a new door for the young people of America.'

The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the nation's foremost public health agency. And yet, it has been absent from this research agenda for more than 20 years.

We should not be afraid of research.

Gun violence is a public health emergency. Anything that kills 40,000 Americans every year is a crisis.

Only by conducting scientific research on gun injury prevention can we better understand the causes of this crisis.

It is clear that the United States faces a public health emergency.

It is our duty--it is our responsibility to investigate why.

Congress should consider funding a dedicated research portfolio to support gun policy research.

Thank you very much. It is now a pleasure for me to introduce the chair of the full Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Nita Lowey.