Mark Souder

It's based off the capital gains. Right now--I had one person with a $40,000 house, and the capital gains on that made the difference of his retirement on an annual basis. The question is they have planned nothing----

Apparently, our ground rules here are: We praise the vets on Saturday and punish them on Sunday. To my friend from New Jersey, this afternoon we did a supposed fix for TRICARE, because the Senate bill, basically, unless you're 65 and over…

If there is a single republican who will take the word of the other party that says when there is a public and private offered that the intent isn't to drive out the private, look at this example, 74 percent of colleges chose the private.

At a time when California is begging on their knees, we are being held up as California a model of how they did low income and affordability in college.

This is a pretty amazing hearing, the party of Andrew Jackson who opposed the national banks not only proposing another national bank.

The proposal to end the FFEL program and replace it with direct federal student lending will have negative consequences on students, it is fiscal madness and the alleged financial benefits to the federal government are likely illusionary.

The law of unintended consequences has led to outcomes far different than intended as Federal Student Assistance has expanded over time.

People prefer choices to monopolies.

The notion that federal financial aid has promoted college access to the United States is a myth not a reality.

The proposal to sharply expand the Pell Grant Program and make it an entitlement is likewise fiscally irresponsible and potentially might add to already inflated college costs.

How does the Administration plan to stem the need for drug treatment in the future by eliminating prevention efforts such as the State Grants portion of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) program?

Do you intend to extend operational control past the 815 miles?

Thank you. Madam Secretary, I have questions relating to the border.

If we are going to work out anything in this country on immigration, we have to have the confidence of the American people that whether it is the DREAM Act or whether it is immigration reform of some type, that the border is secure, or…

Thank you. I'm going to yield to the ranking member in a minute. I didn't want to repeat questions when I was over at Homeland Security earlier.

In my district, we're getting hammered by unemployment. They're looking at the bonuses, and they're saying 'We don't get bonuses when our company goes down. We get laid off.'

This was governors joining together. Now, he freely admits that... the federal government makes it happen.

There is no 'we' here. Education starts with the parents and the local, moves up to the state.

I feel like I woke up in the morning, and missed the big meeting where the federal government was declared God.

I don't hear a lot of people in my district, wandering around, going, 'Oh, you know, I don't like these fusion centers.'

Let me first ask a quick question on the, separate from the structural problems, isn't it, as far as the deficit that you are running in the relationship to income and so one, hasn't it always been true in the Post Office that the money is…

We have been frustrated. I have asked to insert into the record a three-page memo I got this morning from Sheriff Leatherman from Noble County.

My biggest frustration is that ICE--under both Republican and Democratic administrations--has not done enough to support the program.

I am concerned that counternarcotics is not as much in the administration plans or some of the committee plans.