John Tierney: “So just one final thing on that point that my colleague raised a second, we right now are looking at a 6.8 percent rate.”

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I did file an amendment to this bill that would be considered today. Quite simply, what it does is provide existing student loan borrowers the opportunity to responsibly refinance their…

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.

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

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.