John Tierney

What do we get for the 98 percent of the students who are still in that same building?

Our duty as a nation is to every child, not the select few that can get out and go somewhere else.

It is easier to throw some money at a voucher program and say, 'We did our part,' than to really get into the nuts and bolts of what is wrong with the school system here in D.C.

Woman, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Massachusetts will be postponed.

I thank the gentleman. I think it is reprehensible, actually, that the majority has chosen to go with the Ryan budget numbers over the agreement that was reached last August. I think it has put the chairman and ranking member and the…

Woman, this bipartisan amendment is offered with Mr. Gowdy of South Carolina. It provides very clearly $10 million for the John R. Justice Student Loan Repayment Program. It is unfortunate that we know many law school student graduates…

Woman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: Sec. ___. For ``Department of…

I filed a bill last week that would have lowered the interest rates, back at a time when the Republican budget would have let it double, back when the Speaker and the chairman of the Education Committee and the second-ranking Member of the…

I thank the gentleman for acknowledging this. Americans need to know that their family member is going to be able to afford a college degree, whether it is a 2-year degree or a 4-year degree. Too many people are afraid that their child is…

At this time I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Langevin). (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

At this time, I'd like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Peters).

I just note that it was common sense about 2 weeks ago and almost the entire Republican Party voted to let the rate go to 6.8 percent. It's nice to see that they've found some reality here. At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman…

I note that I was at that education meeting and heard the Secretary say very quite clearly that no child who gets an immunization under this program will get an immunization under this program if the fund is eliminated. Mrs. Biggert, of…

The Republicans' long-term fix, of course, was voted on a couple of weeks ago in their budget which allowed for the rates to go up to 6.8 percent and took away the in-school subsidy for interest rates, driving students' costs even further…

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Davis).

I remind the gentleman that in 2007, the bill was paid for. In fact, it was paid for, and 77 members of the Republican Party agreed as well. Now it is time to pay for it in an intelligent and correct manner. I now yield 2 minutes to the…

At this time, I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey).

I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel).

At this time, I would like to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin). (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

At this time, Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Clarke).

Before I yield, I do want to correct the gentleman. There is somebody around here who gets a free lunch under your bill, and that would be the oil companies, which made $80 billion in profits last year. I yield for the purpose of making a…

Well, Mr. Speaker, I would have addressed my remarks to the Chair and taken the challenge if it had been anything other than an empty challenge and would have noted that Secretary Sebelius and the administration know clearly that those…

Before yielding further, I'm going to take 15 seconds and yield that to myself. Mr. Speaker, this supposed slush fund the people are talking about is a fund identified and given Appropriations Committee authority to designate where it…

I yield myself such time as I may consume in order to address the fact that the elimination of the fund would mean that on an annual basis, 326,000 fewer women would be screened for breast cancer. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from…

With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee).