Michael Castle

We need to support programs under current law that promote nutrition education and physical activity.

We need a commitment to enhancing school nutrition and wellness policies as implementation continues.

In the context of today's hearing, nutrition and health are both essential for fostering a child's academic success.

We must work at the federal, state and local levels to address this important issue and complex issue.

At a time when students need higher levels of education and workforce training to succeed in an increasingly competitive global economy, the number of students leaving high school without a diploma is alarming.

No Child Left Behind was passed in 2001 to address the achievement gap that exists between poor and minority students and their more affluent peers.

Three out of every 10 students fail to finish high school. Barely one-half of disadvantaged minority students graduate from high school.

As we work to reauthorize No Child Left Behind--and I hope we do that in the next few months or year or so--we must work to ensure that students are prepared for college or the workforce when they graduate.

I am a strong supporter of No Child Left Behind, at least conceptually, that we passed in 2001 to address the achievement gap.

Anybody who has been a governor in the last several decades looks upon Governor Hunt as being the great guru of education.

It's the right concept, but we need to get the details right.

I don't think any of us would question the need to reform predatory lending practices in the mortgage industry.

Research increasingly points to the critical importance of quality early childhood education as the foundation for school success.

I believe the new rules take a comprehensive approach to protecting consumers, and I remain convinced that enacting legislation that goes well beyond these carefully crafted rules is not wise.

I think I have heard everybody here say we shouldn't have a list that identifies people as too big to fail.

I think there is unanimity in this room and in the United States at this point that the subprime lending issues and the foreclosures that have arisen from that have contributed to the economic downturn we currently face.

I have some concerns about the Federal Reserve taking on much more at this point.

I was a little surprised with what I thought was almost unanimity that we need some sort of a systemic risk regulator out there.

I sort of believe that we should have a systemic risk regulator.

We are all concerned about this money getting to Main Street and not Wall Street so to speak

All banks are not bad banks; and somehow all banks are getting the rap of being bad banks because of what is happening, but they are not.

It is my hope this expansion will encourage servicers to revisit the conditions of a problematic mortgage and encourage them to restructure the loans so more Americans may avoid foreclosure.

I am very concerned about the mortgage foreclosure process that is going on in this country.

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