John Tierney: “I thank you for raising that point that this is a two-step process. This part of the process, in fact, talks about…”

Well I tell you, it bothers me that it took a report to get it addressed.

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.

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