I worry desperately about those children who haven't been read to, who don't know the front of a book from the back of a book.

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…

It is a very competitive market. We still continue to see that we are not recovering as quick as we want to.

It isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of the people in this Nation that stimulates the economy.

Mr. Chairman, if I might just ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record the testimonies of these youngsters who were at this forum on the value of Pell.

I suspect that is one of the reasons why we are taking a very hard look at what they do and what those outcomes are, which makes enormous sense if we are going to be investigatory and have oversight as to where some of our Federal dollars…

I think we want to get the record that shows that, Madam Secretary, that we are going to get the $1,000,000,000 back, and that we are going to fund the money in the 2012 bill.

I would also say that the economic recovery program was targeted. It was transparent. It was timely, and it was temporary.

every opportunity is being eliminated through H.R. 1, in effect.

If you can't read, you can't do anything, you have little chance for success.

This is about the 13 percent cut in the majority's budget in regard to CMS and the Medicare program management.

An $845 reduction in the Pell Grant, as has been said, takes us back 38 years in terms of the cost of what education is today.

the budget stands in a sharp contrast to the plan outlined by the majority in H.R. 1, which includes radical spending cuts that will cost Americans jobs and jeopardize our prospects for economic recovery.

It would seem to me that the banks are doing pretty well. And you know what, we bailed them out to a 'fare thee well'; it is time we bailed out those folks who are trying to get the kids to school.

It would seem to me that we would want to put some money in there to actually do so.

this outbreak could have been prevented.

the USDA is responsible for egg safety at processing plants, not the FDA, which is leading the inspection. This split jurisdiction created a disjointed inspection process.

I believe they do, and I think we ought to deal with resources that get us to where we want to go.

As long as there are unfair disparities in pay, it is always the right time to talk about pay equity.

The wage gap is an anachronism, a relic of discrimination that should be stamped out.

I believe we have a moral obligation to ensure that one half of the American workforce is treated as fairly and equitably as the other half.

I believe that Paycheck Fairness is legislation whose time has come.

Women lose an average of $434,000 in income over a lifetime due to the gender pay gap.

Congresswoman DeLauro talked about women over the age of 70 are the poorest sector of our society.

We have a moral obligation to ensure that one half of the American workforce is treated as fairly and equitably as the other half.