So I've got two questions for you. One is what can we do about this, which has got to be part of the excessive cost of education, which has gone up faster than anything except tobacco products since 1980.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

The people that are defaulting on loans and aren't graduating within 6 years, would they be better off in a different kind of place?

My question for you and for the experts is how do we get it under control rather than just talking about how to finance it all the time, how do we get cost under control?

And so my question for you is with 50 percent of the people not graduating within 6 years, and another 50 percent defaulting on their loans, don't you think a lot of the space that you're occupying and that regionally applied education…

I would like to thank Dr. Gilligan for the important contribution that you all are making to preparing people to do the kind of jobs that we have out there right now and that we need.

I'm very concerned about the long-term sustainability of health care in general if we don't make a major change.

According to Forbes magazine, an average 64-year-old woman in Lee County, Florida, has seen her insurance premiums and costs jump 135 percent.

I'm used to satisfying customers, as you are. And maybe we ought to think about a system that puts the patient first.

I remember when I was first elected, as I said, that we had earmarks, my constituents were actually glad to see me when I went home.

So we basically just sacrificed our constitutional duty to allocate those dollars to the administrative branch