We can deal with our debt responsibly and in a balanced way. We have to reduce the debt and deficit.
What is going on is nothing short of scandalous.
Taxpayers deserve some assurance that a Pell Grant invested in a student is leading to a better career.
I have always felt the same way about Pell grants because, rather than loans, this is money that a student does not have to repay.
We can't afford to see taxpayer dollars wasted by sending billions of dollars of Pell Grants to for-profit schools.
I would hope that the--that this body would do the right thing and extend it on its own, if possible.
In February the House passed an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 that proposed cutting the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) b...
the healthcare reform law included a provision, which I authored, that authorizes the CDC to track the epidemiology of congenital heart dise...
Treatment choices should be made between doctors and patients, rather than by folks in Washington, DC.
Today, however, adequate funding for the Social Security Administration to properly administer these programs is at risk.
We think community colleges have been this unpolished gem along the education continuum.