"I hope they take that seriously as they do the reauthorization that is coming up."
"Everyone on this panel and I think everyone in Congress knows the importance of job training."
"What we need is instead of a plan to consolidate 38 into 11 in the Department of Education, we need an overall plan, and that would involve more than just one authorizing committee."
"I suspect if you look at it, most of those are involved because of an authorization by Congress, and that it would take legislative action to change those things."
"It seems like every single agency has specific money to do climate-change studies, but there is no overall strategy of climate change."
"The days of being able to graduate from high school, go to work in the factory, and retire 50 years later are gone."
"Community colleges are going to be more and more important as lifelong education."
"I don't think anybody on this committee or anybody that I am aware of isn't in favor of teacher quality programs and improving teacher quality."
"Dr. Heckman also writes, 'For high quality early childhood interventions, there are none of the tradeoffs between equity and efficiency that plague most public policies.'"
"Do we have to find another use for it?"
"I would think we would know what the backlog is of maintenance requirements."