John Tierney

As I understand section 225, the definitions that you mentioned are as you stated.

At this point in time, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Danny K. Davis) to engage in a colloquy.

At this point, I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Connecticut, Joe Courtney, who has been a strong member of the committee and an advocate of workforce investment for some time.

At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to our colleague from Oregon, Suzanne Bonamici.

At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado, Jared Polis.

At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), who is the ranking member of the committee and, as the chairman of the committee has said, is no stranger to this issue. He has been a…

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland, Steny Hoyer, our Democratic whip.

At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, Ruben Hinojosa, who has been deeply involved in the passage of this bill.

I just know that we have been making a comparison here today that if we could change the committee's function off of trying to usurp a decision by the board that hasn't been made yet, we could talk about raising the minimum wage, which in…

I think that the Noel Canning case may seriously impact that, in which case we are all going to be concerned about that.

I just haven't heard any evidence that indicates to me that there is any reason to believe that this board won't be fair-minded.

The risk that you have is that the board may disagree with you, and then that is the risk that Mr. King takes.

I believe the things that really matter - ensuring all Americans can get a decent job that pays a fair wage, access affordable, quality healthcare, and retire with dignity and a little change in their pocket - are squarely in this…

Ensuring that all Americans get a decent job that pays a fair wage, access to affordable, quality health care, retire with dignity.

I am confident we will find ways to disagree without being disagreeable.

I don't think I've seen a display of this kind of disrespect in all the time I've been here in Congress, and it's unfortunate that anybody would have to be subjected to it.

I appreciate that from my colleague. The reason this mother supports the bill is that she knows it is going to help her daughter pay her loans in a reasonable way, while pursuing other goals this life. This is really, Mr. Speaker, about…

What we need to help with some ideas and what are we going to do, the enforcement provision that we put in was weak. It got watered down in the conference committee on that.

I want to just amplify comments made by Mr. Courtney with respect to what the Ryan budget would do to some of the higher education funds on that.

I think, two points, most appalling are that on Pell Grants, it would eliminate some $90 billion of the mandatory funding that we have already paid for going forward and then when you talk about student loan repayment benefits, it would…

The record isn't great on special ed, other than all of the rhetoric from elected officials about how much they support it.

There is always a reason. And when you talk about prioritizing, we had amendment after amendment on the Republican side to cut special ed, to provide money for another program.

When we got into Congress that year after that election and the Speaker of the House now was the chairman of this committee, long time from Wisconsin, I offered an amendment to the bill that would fully fund IDEA. Not a single member of…

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