John Tierney

I don't doubt that everybody agrees that preventing insolvency is a critical issue here.

I had an opportunity yesterday to be in Billerica, Massachusetts, where they are closing out 85 seats in a daycare--in a child care Head Start program; 85 seats and seven employees are going to be gone because of sequestration.

Well, you know, I hear from folks at home that they certainly appreciate having the money spent on health services as opposed to lobbyists or CEO bonuses and other things, so thank you for implementing that.

Madam Secretary, thank you for the difficult job that you have of enforcing and implementing a law that basically was passed democratically but is facing an unrelenting effort to delegitimize that law day in and day out, so I appreciate…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I draw the point that was mentioned earlier that the Democrats made a promise to keep these loans at 3.4 percent, and the promise is being broken. It's being broken by this bill, this proposal by the…

We have a bill in the House here; Senators Reid and Durbin have one in the Senate that addresses that and a long-term fix.

Income-based repayment, I think, is an extraordinarily important opportunity.

I am really glad to hear Mr. Kline and others here saying that they are behind more money for IDEA.

I go over and over this. You know and I know, and most people know, that this was a judicial mandate back in the 1970s that communities educate all children fairly on that.

the Republican budget, as you mentioned, cuts it by over $2 billion.

I would hope that we would think about keeping that 3.4 percent rate for the subsidized Stafford Loans.

The student loan debt is a crisis in this country, Mr. Speaker. More and more students approach me in the district and post on my Facebook about their loan debt. I would like to share an excerpt from the stories for those of my colleagues…

The sequester situation is nothing short of legislative malpractice, and it was committed by Congress.

I hate to think that this committee's agenda and schedule is going to be set by what hysteria shows up on the internet from time to time.

In that investigation, we released a report entitled, Warlord Inc., that found a vast protection racket in which warlords, criminals and insurgents extorted contractors for safe passage.

This should dispel the notion that the Department of Defense budget is not riddled with ineffectiveness, waste, fraud and abuse.

At our subcommittee hearing in December 2011, then Defense Department Inspector General Gordon Heddel described this contract as 'an example of just how bad it can get.'

In 2008, then Chairman Henry Waxman and the full committee examined allegations of corruption in the DLA fuel contracts in Iraq.

Today I rise to remember the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech. Seven years ago tomorrow our country lost more than 30 lives, many of them college students with their entire future stretching out before them. One of those students was Ross…

I get what all their excuses--I heard them all when I went to put the effort in, and I heard them all through all the people in the Senate who wanted to champion the governors and the legislators and give them a path of retreat.

My businesses don't see it that way. You know, my businesses see it very clearly as a public good that is helping them find really good innovators, and creators, and workforce people, and anything like that.

I think at the time we said it was like rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship, as opposed to doing something constructive.

Congress spends the dime. We ought to be deciding what money is going out to these departments.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. This is an attempt to deal with the problem that was in the underlying bill, as pointed out by that letter, but an attempt that mirrors the process for the last session and this session. They…

Thank you very much. I understand that much in the manager's amendment is technical and clarifying corrections, but it does make one notable substantive change to the underlying bill as it pertains to the designation of local workforce…