The last thing I want to see is these programs be eviscerated in one way or another.

I do want to just make sure, if I could--I want to request from those who have concerns about regulations...

Do you think there is any role to play on the part of the Department of Defense in all of this to coordinate more closely with the states...

When we passed No Child Left Behind many years ago, one of the things that we insisted was that people graduate from high school.

I think it is really quite unfortunate, and at a time when we are also operating under a continuing resolution.

I publicly want to thank you for all of your fantastic work on this, Governor.

I have made very clear over the course of the past several months that I am deeply concerned and really pretty baffled by the proposal to make irreversible cuts to the Air National Guard.

I urge the majority to continue to work in a bipartisan manner to produce a bill that can help get really millions of unemployed back to work and, of course, boost our overall economic growth.

I really do appreciate the hearing today. This is something--I have been in Congress since January 2007 and we have been talking about reauthorization since that time--reauthorization of WIA--so this--I think it is a really critical…

I want to thank Representative Platts for working with me on a bipartisan basis on the SECTORS Act, which, I want to point out, did pass the House unanimously in the last Congress at the end of the last session, the 2010.

I strongly urged Congress to go big, as many of my colleagues did on both sides of the aisle, and aim for $4 trillion in deficit reduction.