Brett Guthrie

Thank you, Madam Chair. Dr. Petrisko, I am pleased to hear that regional accreditors have launched a nationwide effort to place increased emphasis on graduation rates as part of their ongoing reviews of colleges and universities.

There is a lot of bipartisan stuff going on.

People expect it and want it and want the products to work.

One of the most important responsibilities given to Congress by the Constitution is oversight of the federal bureaucracy.

It is clear CNCS is not fulfilling its responsibilities to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent in accordance with the law.

You know the difference between an excuse and a problem? A problem comes with possible solutions; an excuse is a justification for the status quo.

About 7 years ago, I was on the floor talking on the Affordable Care Act. And I remember talking about, I had just left the State Senate, and bringing up that my colleagues are in Frankfort and they are doing work on the budget; and, in…

We want to make it easier for people to use.

I introduced a bill--the Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act -- that would improve the timing, frequency, and content of financial aid counseling.

Again, it was great to see bipartisan support for that loan forgiveness effort to address something that as a Nation we really have, I think, a moral duty to perform.

We need to get rid of the complexity. We need to eliminate the confusion students face.

I was encouraged to hear Chairman Guthrie say that simplifying financial aid does not mean cutting it.

If you can spell out some things we can look at in accreditation for life experiences, and get somebody into that 2-1/2-year timeframe, it is something that is doable.

We need to make it simple, but we do need accurate data.

It is not a radical issue. It could be bipartisan if people chose to work together.

Medicaid expansion, if you let it go as it is, it doubles over the next 10 years. It is just unsustainable.

Republicans and Democrats on both sides of the aisle have worked hard in recent years, particularly in the ESSA that we passed to make sure that we have local control of education, the idea that reforms that State and education local…

Eighteen years ago when my young daughter was born, we were all happy and excited. Then I did the math.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Tonight, millions of Americans, including myself, will tune in to the College Football Playoff National Championship between the University of Alabama and Clemson University. As with any college or…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, all of us have families who come to our offices, and they are advocating for research or for cures for diseases to which they have lost a parent or a child, or they have their children with…

I encourage the adoption of this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

Again, I encourage support of the bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

I just want to commend my friend from Pennsylvania who has spent so much effort on this. We had testimony in the Energy and Commerce Committee, families coming before us who were in situations that are difficult and gives them the…

Let's create a system and a Medicaid program where people were transitioned off so they can improve themselves, go to school, become productive and move forward.

Governor Bevin is actually trying to take a program that he inherited that was a hundred percent federal taxpayer paid for now the state has got to start putting money into the program and trying to make it work.