I urge the Committee to take seriously the need to improve accountability in our higher education system to better protect students and taxpayers.

If we are truly interested in accountability and risk to taxpayers, the Higher Education Act reauthorization should embrace the Gainful Employment and Borrower Defense rules finalized under the Obama administration.

Unfortunately, Secretary DeVos has refused to enforce either rule--for which she is being sued by state attorneys general and others.

By giving schools 'skin in the game' when it comes to their students' success, we give them a financial incentive to do everything they can to ensure their students are well prepared for good paying jobs and the future.

Among other reforms, the bill eliminates the provision in current law which forbids the Department of Education from setting and enforcing student outcomes standards.

It is powerfully important.

These plans are deliberately designed to avoid the important protections that are there in the ACA.

We only have to deal with the problem of the places where they can go belly up right now.

one of the driving motivations behind the Affordable Care Act was to improve insurance coverage for small businesses and for entrepreneurs. It worked.

What worries me is the Trump administration seems to be heading in the opposite direction.

They want to leave community health centers in the lurch and most of all, they are going to leave patients in the lurch.