"As we look across our country and see almost 16 million children going to bed hungry every night..."
"There are too many, as we heard already, Bureau of Indian Education schools that are operating facilities that are in disrepair and need some work."
"It is pretty clear that we have work to do both to improve the Bureau of Indian Education schools as well as addressing the educational outcomes for all American Indian and Alaska Native students."
"We are removing a barrier for many of them."
"I am really looking forward to working with all my colleagues to take ambitious steps to ensure that fewer children have to worry about where they are going to get their next meal."
"It is really in our best interest. In a country like ours where we have so much, it is just wrong for students to be hungry, for children to be hungry."
"I was very heartened in your testimony when you mentioned your commitment really to keeping the United States as a global leader in high-performance computing."
"I wondered if you could tell me a little bit about your thinking behind that and what some of the alternatives for those programs might be."