Rosa DeLauro

I want to see where there is the impetus and where there is the will and the openness to try to look at what we are going to do in spending $4,000 per person in this economy, in this budget year, when what we have seen with H.R. 1 is…

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

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

The only way to save by consolidating job training programs is by cutting services.

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

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

Amicus briefing is a good practice. It is open. It is transparent. It is engaging.

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

And, quite frankly, what has really upset me was that basically implied that the people who are trying to put the union together are Mafia based.

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

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.

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

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.

H.R. 1, the majority's 2011 appropriations package that passed the House in February, cut the NLRB's budget by $50,000,000, or 18 percent.

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

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

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

I know that the Administration has made improving program integrity and reducing improper payments a very high priority.

I want to thank today's panelists for coming to testify before us this morning.

Could one or more of you help us to understand what is meant by improper payment?

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

So if we are going to try to evaluate programs and see whether or not they are effective or not, it would seem to me that we would want to put some money in there to actually do so.

But I don't want to go into detail, but I will just commend, and maybe we should have a copy of this for everyone, that for-profit colleges, GAO's, and we support the GAO efforts here and their testimony, undercover testing finds colleges…

We have health care here. All of us who are sitting here have health care.

It serves 20 million patients. It improves access, quality of care.