"Study after study shows that teacher quality is the decisive in-school factor in boosting student achievement."
"In order to achieve greater equity in our schools, we must ensure that every student has access to highly effective teachers."
"The Higher Education Act plays a critical role in teacher training by providing funding to institutions of higher education."
"Coverage of novel tobacco products--such as e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine--will protect Americans from unregulated products and help prevent a new generation from becoming addicted to nicotine."
"I understand that both the menu labeling final rule, called for in the Affordable Care Act, and the proposed tobacco deeming rule, called for in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act a..."
"A final rule that covers chain restaurants and the full range of similar retail establishments... will ensure that Americans have access to the information they need to make healthy decisions for them..."
"When you put money in people's pockets, they spend it and I get more customers."
"We simply must find a way to shore up the incomes of working Americans."
"57 percent of entrepreneurs support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour."
"57 percent of small business owners support raising the minimum wage to $10.10."
"I think the bulk of the evidence of economists that have actually studied this issue... show that it has no impact."