Todd Rokita

We need parents as participants. We need them involved.

So unless Congress updates FERPA and clarifies what information can be collected, how that information can be used, and if that information can even be shared, student privacy will not be properly protected.

I certainly didn't learn about these improvements before working on the legislation from the ether. The day nursery in Avon, Indiana, was one of my first stops, and we were able to incorporate a lot of what we learned that day and every…

Thank you, Chairman Kline, for your leadership on this issue. I also want to thank Ranking Member Miller, Ranking Member Loebsack, our colleagues across the rotunda, and, of course, the staff, who put so much effort into this pro-work…

Government is the people's business, and every man, woman, and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

A free and democratic society requires government transparency and accountability.

This is the issue. It certainly is not stale, and I think leadership demands that we lead on what could be.

Let's trust people, not some government bureaucrat or some utopian searching person who is, yes, well-meaning.

What we are talking about in the comprehensive sense is empowering the individual, trusting the individual.

We are suffering under [the Affordable Care Act], as the majority of the testimony here clearly indicates.

I think the gentleman is exactly right, if the American people show the Senate that the American people care as we know they do. This is still the home of the free. This is still an open republic, and it is still we, the people, who are in…

I would love at this point--I think we all would--to hear them say: We have a better idea, we are going to take it up, and we will show you. I would take that as progress, sir. This is what we have heard: silence.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the gentleman for organizing this here tonight. I think the gentleman is exactly right. We need leadership. Leaders are supposed to lead. When you look at what the gentleman rightly put here on…

In Indiana it actually increased voter turnout when we went to that, because people saw that the administrators valued the process enough.

You can roll out of bed and vote, and yet voter turnout doesn't go up, and that is because we have a cultural issue.

I have been saying for years that the problems associated with Florida's election really had nothing to do with secretaries of state or local election officials, but really it was sheriffs of the State that were the problem.

I understand my amendment is subject to a point of order due to scoring or budget concerns. While I intend to cooperate and withdraw this amendment, I would like to acknowledge that this body has a history of waiving points of order on…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. (a) None of the funds made available by this…

Well, I thank, first of all, the gentleman from Arizona for yielding his time and for his leadership here in the House of Representatives, especially this evening with the good work that he is managing here on the floor. I know, being his…

Protecting children has been and must remain a national priority.

I thank Chairman Kline, Dr. Foxx, the entire staff of the Education and the Workforce Committee, and everyone for working together on what is in every respect better. This bill is better than what is in current law. I think we need to take…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois and the gentlelady from Tennessee for allowing me to help write this important amendment. The President's unilateral handoff of key Internet functions to a multistakeholder community, without the consent…

I thank the chairman and the ranking member as well. Both the chairman and the ranking member have a great bill here, and it deserves the support of this entire body, in my humble opinion. As chairman of the colloquially called K-12…

I think that regardless of a union contract, if an employer of a union employee wants to give that employee a raise that employer should be able to do that.

That should be our goal, so that people can be creating an environment where people can build the best lives for themselves and their families.