When you want to craft real solutions, maybe look more to your communities, your local and state governments.

I do not think so. I am going to vote for it. It is not going to pass anyway.

The Greatest Generation, that grew up in the Depression, fought a World War, highest debt we ever had, paid it off, built the interstate highways.

43 percent of Americans retired...are thinking about coming out of retirement.

I think that when it comes to funding, probably it is going to be harder to get, because if you are going more and more in debt, you are asking your kids and grandkids to pay for it.

You are giving them fish rather than teaching them to fish, and that is an unmitigated disaster for our country if we do not teach work ethic.

This hearing is called to order. Welcome to the hearing. I am the Ranking Member of the Aging Committee.

As Senator Braun and all of us have pointed out, that is not the case.

I would suggest get the grants from places that will have them available, dependably, and that is from entities that cash-flow and do not borrow to do it.

We urge you to take up this legislation and help fix this travesty.

I don't think borrowing now a trillion and a half, soon to be two trillion a year is a good business plan.

I don't think borrowing now a trillion and a half, soon to be two trillion a year is a good business plan.

I don't think borrowing now a trillion and a half, soon to be two trillion a year is a good business plan.

I do look forward--sometimes we are at odds in terms of what we should do, but there is always practical legislation in the middle, and I would hope that we can have those conversations that get us there.

the cost of post-secondary education has gone--is pricing itself out of the market.

we need more of them to fill that high demand, very high pay niche.

When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.

they are going to make more money in many cases than most four-year degrees would produce.

I challenge employers throughout the country to make sure to take that into consideration.

I think the solutions to all of these are probably left best to the laboratory of the states.

Federal bureaucrats should not step in the way. We must do more to address federal regulatory burdens.

The ability to achieve the American dream of homeownership is in peril as housing today is less affordable than it has ever been.

I think that is the wrong way to accomplish maybe a goal that is noble to help those that need help affording a place to live, but not like that.

I do look forward--sometimes we are at odds in terms of what we should do, but there is always practical legislation in the middle, and I would hope that we can have those conversations that get us there.

A lot of times things we do here are well-intended, but you cannot do it by borrowing from future generations.