John Tierney

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…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge the House to act on responsible legislation that I have introduced that would help tens of millions of college students, graduates, parents, and middle class families all…

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.

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.

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

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…

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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I need to express my wish to have the unemployment benefits extended as soon as possible.

The argument that extending benefits removes incentive to find a job is ludicrous.

What can we do for those folks to get them back on track that doesn't leave them in the situation being 55 years old, having 98,000 worth of debt, and never be able to get out of this thing?

Understand, I hear horror stories--you know, my constituents calling me--that would stand your hair on end about the way they are being treated by folks like that who end up putting them in a worse situation than they would otherwise be if…

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

2 months ago today, emergency unemployment benefits expired for over 1 million Americans, including 20,000 veterans, and yet this House still has not taken up legislation to provide these workers and their families necessary relief. That…

I hope the families that have had concerns and questions have now felt that they have had an opportunity to hear fairly broadly answers to those concerns.

The fact is do we really think that this Congress, as currently constructed anyway, is going to allow the federal government to go in and tell states whether or not they are doing a good job in licensing and setting standards on this…

Some 1.3 million workers have lost their jobless benefits as of December 28. That number grows by an estimated 72,000 more a week. In my home State of Massachusetts, alone, some 62,915 families have been adversely impacted, and that…

But you are right, the CACG is very, very small as a set-off on that, and we had quite a fight just to get that.

We want to strengthen the Pell Grant program.

I am looking at Congressman Tierney because he is the champion of a maintenance-effort provision...

Colleagues, this is the final amendment to the bill, and, as you know, it will not kill the bill. It will not send it back to committee. If this motion is adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. And I ask…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 5-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by a 5-minute vote on the passage of…

I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Tierney moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1900 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to…

Substantial likelihood. Ms. Lerner found that there was a substantial likelihood.