You didn't find duplication among the education programs we are discussing here today?

shouldn't we move to ensure that workers are not put at risk during this inherently dangerous practice?

I can give you some examples with regard to food safety. You and I should talk about this because I have been wanting to consolidate the 15 agencies into one single food safety agency.

I would also like to submit for the record a letter from 900 businesses, expressing their support for the current workforce system.

We have committees of the whole on the floor. We did that with regard to healthcare.

The only remedy, as I understand it, is by bringing the complaint to the NLRB.

I believe it could have been avoided with certain specific safety standards in place to deal with natural gas.

nearly 25 percent of all Pell grant dollars...go to for-profits.

Are we currently providing sufficient appropriations to the Department for program evaluation?

Will current funding be able to address that backlog? You have got $8 million in this CR.

Black lung is preventable, but you also talked about the increasing incidences, the new cases of black lung in young miners.

Let me just say in terms of the effect of that cut on your effort to control fraud, reduce improper payments...

My hope is that our subcommittee will continue this commitment to taking concrete steps that will actually improve program integrity.

The President has signed an Executive Order 13520 to this effect.

If the NLRB doesn't have the funding to act on these complaints in a timely manner, then, in effect, there is no effective remedy for violations of the law.

the U.S. Department of Education data shows higher default rates for students who attend for-profit schools.

The funds also establish a Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation.

I think that is the point. They are not there anymore. Did you know about it? Someone did it.

the principal effect of underfunding the agency would be to increase the time it takes to resolve issues

But what would be useful is to understand how effective each of these programs is.

I think otherwise it would be quite a patchwork here.

This has to do with if we see the $50,000,000 cut.

You didn't find waste, as I understood.

Have you formally evaluated the Department of Education's consolidation plan?

I think that is an important point to be made. Because it looked as if there was some view that this was advocacy rather than information.