"I would also like to thank my colleague, Representative Fulcher, for bringing up charter schools."
"The committee has a responsibility to ensure that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars... has been spent wisely."
"It is not going to go to regulatory and punitive measures, it is going to go to compliance and training."
"Thank you, Chair Demings, and thank you Ranking Member Cammack. Thank you for our witnesses."
"the pandemic was life versus life. It was never life versus the economy."
"there was over $60 billion that was allocated to schools that was not spent"
"The broader the joint--anti-joint employment is anti-franchise and anti-small business."
"if a wall didn't work, Speaker Pelosi probably disagrees with you because we had a wall up around the Capitol for, I don't know, over 6 months or so."
"I find it interesting that despite these statements you still believe that lifting Title 42 is a good idea."
"I have heard of horror stories of children being smuggled, I have heard of the rape trees, I have heard of the cartels using children as pawns."
"In part because of the Biden administration's deference to the teacher's unions, the CDC's school reopening guidance suggested a far greater risk to reopening schools than actually existed."
"You do not have any regrets that your agency and you did not show more courage in standing up for children."