John Tierney: “We shouldn't lose sight of the fact, obviously, that we're really looking at students and their families.”

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.

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

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

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…