I know the debt is a serious problem facing America. I know the deficit is something that threatens our economy and our way of living. I also know there are sensible, thoughtful ways to deal with it. One of them was addressed by the…

I commend him for his continued commitment to tackling this important issue.

We know that 25 percent of for-profit college students will default on their Federal loans within 3 years of leaving school.

There are bad actors in this industry, despite the claims of every lobbyist that their client is one of the good ones.

Overall, the Senate CR includes $23.25 billion for financial services accounts. This represents a cut of $2.268 billion, or 9 percent, below the President's fiscal year 2011 budget request of $25.518 billion. Compared to the fiscal year…

Under the House plan, the SSA would have to cut its staff by 3,500 by the end of the year.

Today, however, adequate funding for the Social Security Administration to properly administer these programs is at risk.

I think you spoke out quite strongly about the Makena situation and I think brought a lot of attention to a circumstance that really was deeply troubling.

The House continuing resolution H.R. 1 would cut administrative funding for SSA by $125 million below last year's level.

I have been disappointed, sadly disappointed, by the limited, if negligible, standards for accreditation.

In February the House passed an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 that proposed cutting the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget by $1.6 billion or 5 percent compared to NIH's fiscal year 2010 budget.

we're creating terrible deficits in young scientists and terrible deficits in the public body of knowledge.

You cannot expect a student or that student's family to know whether a school is worth investing in.

Student loans are different than other debts. They are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. A student loan you will carry to the grave.

the healthcare reform law included a provision, which I authored, that authorizes the CDC to track the epidemiology of congenital heart disease.

We can deal with our debt responsibly and in a balanced way. We have to reduce the debt and deficit.

According to a recent Families USA report, every $1 investment in medical research stimulates $2.43 in business activity.

Biomedical research is one of the engines that drive our economy.

Drastically cutting NIH, as the House budget would force us to do, would be a classic case of penny wise and pound foolish thinking.

But I have become deeply troubled by what I see happening in higher education today.

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.

I would hope that the--that this body would do the right thing and extend it on its own, if possible.

The Senate majority plan would provide, on net, $600 million more for the Social Security Administration's administrative expenses.

We want to invest in the fiscal year 2012 budget in what we are calling the First in the World Competition.

What we can do is to make sure that if profits ensue and NIH has made a contribution to that, in terms of genuine intellectual property discoveries, that there should be royalty sharing on that basis.