Investing in workforce development is a critical step we must take to ensure a brighter future for our economy.

Mr. Chair, today I rise in opposition to H.R. 5. As an educator, I believe parent voices should be honored in schools. All educators believe this. We know that this bill is not about that at all. We have always had parents involved in our…

The LOAN Act will help improve the lives of student loan borrowers, both now and in the future by making loans cheaper to take out, and easier to pay off.

We all know that a college degree is the surest pathway to economic mobility.

The work we do here today has direct consequences on your lives and futures. I hope all my colleagues will keep today's hearing grounded in our most important priority: supporting your success and pursuit of the American Dream.

But the Pell Grant could not keep up with the cost of college. So, through the years the student debt crisis grew. And now the crisis has turned into a catastrophe.

President Biden said erase student loans up to $20,000.00 for some, and $10,000.00 for most, and the republicans are whining.

The declining value of the Pell Grant, the bedrock of our financial aid system, has also increased the burden for students and families.

Where were you when we bailed out the airlines, the automobiles, the State governments, the local governments?

Let us help our children. Let us help the hard-working people who are making a difference, and who deserve our support, and who will help our economy, and our economy will prosper.

The cost of college keeps rising out of control.