We are making an unprecedented investment--$2 billion along with the Labor Department, to invest in community colleges.
I cannot vote blindly for Pell grants and college student loans knowing that this Ponzi scheme is going on in the name of for-profit college...
For the first time in the history of our country, student loan debt exceeded credit card debt in America.
Student loans are different than other debts. They are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. A student loan you will carry to the grave.
We want to invest in the fiscal year 2012 budget in what we are calling the First in the World Competition.
we're creating terrible deficits in young scientists and terrible deficits in the public body of knowledge.
It was the public outcry, your outcry, Representative DeLauro, the professional societies that I think actually turned the tide.
Drastically cutting NIH, as the House budget would force us to do, would be a classic case of penny wise and pound foolish thinking.
I was disappointed that fiscal year 2011 appropriations contained severe reductions to international programs.
The rate of growth of student indebtedness in our country is alarming.
You cannot expect a student or that student's family to know whether a school is worth investing in.