Peter Roskam

In no other industry would overhead costs be allowed to grow at this rate. Executives would lose their jobs.

Administrative costs have grown faster than the cost of instruction across most campuses.

Does that seem absurd to you like it does to me? And I mean gratuitously absurd.

Nobody is talking about eliminating Pell Grants.

I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would join us in this reform and alleviate this debt burden.

So I believe we need to do more to afford opportunity, the very kind of opportunity President Johnson had in mind...

Does the Tax Code help create more access to higher education, or does the Tax Code hinder that?

Congress does not reform itself.

I think we are in the midst of a bubble.

My heart is heavy with this debate. My heart becomes very heavy when I hear the descriptions of this awful procedure. My heart becomes even heavier, Madam Speaker, when I listen to the twisted logic and the distortions of people who find…

Did you notice something? Did you notice that, for the past 2 years, the President of the United States has said that if we were going to have a deal, it was going to be based on full disclosure? Mr. Speaker, the President said that we…

The amount of money that is going out the door in improper payments just literally, at our hearing, it just took our breath away.

I thank Chairman Ryan for yielding time. I am pleased to see that we are taking up this 2-year extension of the independence at home demonstration project, which expired on May 1. I first got interested in this because of a constituent…

Ladies and gentlemen of the House, we ought not bet against Ukraine and Georgia. I recently returned from a bipartisan delegation of the House Democracy Partnership that visited Ukraine and Georgia over the Fourth of July recess. Our…

I think we really need to up the game.

But you are conflating two concepts. You are conflating authorization, which I am not arguing with, and appropriation.

The law is really clear that you can't spend money that hasn't been appropriated. There is no ambiguity about that.

On Saturday, April 25, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal--the most powerful earthquake in the region in nearly a century. Estimates are that 5,000 people have perished and that thousands more are injured or are missing. This week, here…

I am of the opinion that Lois Lerner 2.0 is still possible.

In fourth grade I had Miss Lillian Anderson, who was my teacher. And Lillian Anderson was a really good fourth grade teacher.

So I think that there is a lot of opportunity to us for us to revisit these things.

So you have concluded in those cases that the Department of Justice doesn't have the capacity?

I am not buying that. I don't buy that it has got to be all or nothing.

I think we are beginning to erode the ability of the agency to function.

This is blue-sky stuff. This is not some theoretical thing. This is well used in other areas of the Federal Government, and yet the IRS has said we are not going to do it at the same time saying we need more money.