Bill Foster actually said...

"What I am trying to understand is why this important initiative, one that simply seeks to gather data and shed greater transparency on the student loan market, has been ignored for so long."

"I think it is remarkable how constant it has been, with no visible change as a result of any of the policies of the last 2 years."

"But there's a real need for something like ARPA-E to fill gaps in the private-sector research and development."

"So how much of this has to do with what I view frankly as a sort of assault on the patent system that's happened in the last several years, led actually by Congress."