your Gun Safety Commission has yet to take any real action steps, and now your budget would eliminate grants that are used to improve students' safety for the second year in a row.

I want to acknowledge your efforts to realign the Department of Education's role in the education system.

Unfortunately, you're taking the cops off the beat at the Department of Education.

I think we both would agree that when students default on their student loans, there are many losers: the student, the student's family, America's taxpayers, and you might say other students who are counting on that money coming back into…

I am really disappointed how similar this budget looks to what you proposed last year and which this committee soundly rejected.

I am also interested in working together to make post-secondary education more accessible and affordable for all students.

I think our committee would want to think long and hard before we did that.

your budget would eliminate programs that help teachers grow and improve their teaching skills, grants that support before and after school programs, and investments that support low-income undergraduates.

I think a lot of schools have responded to year-round Pell by being sure that they have bachelor degree programs that can realistically be completed.

this budget is another example of an empty promise made by this administration to address the senseless gun violence devastating our families and our schools.

They are charging too much and they are providing too little. They are misleading these students into debt and enrollment and then casting them off.

I think it is likely that the committee will look at the work we just completed, and the large formula grant programs are not likely to be eliminated.

Two out of three graduates from for-profit colleges and universities make less money than their high school graduate counterparts.

you are proposing $1 billion for programs that align with your personal agenda but are not authorized by the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act.

Three out of four students from these types of for-profit colleges and universities are not able to pay $1 on their Federal student debt within 3 years.

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Hassan), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). Are there any other Senators in…

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