This amendment would decimate the ability of the Department of Education to meet the needs of Americans by indiscriminately transferring $44 million to the spending reduction account. This does nothing to improve the bill, which is already…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment No. 175 Offered by Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania The…

This amendment would restore funding for the mental health programs cut in this bill. Specifically, it would reverse the $142 million in cuts to SAMHSA's mental health block grant and restore funding for Project AWARE State grants and…

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

I thank my colleague from Illinois for his leadership on this bill; and also to Congressman Thompson for all he has done to bring this to where it is today, because millions of students and workers are eager to advance into good-paying…

This will bring the Perkins program into the modern, 21st century global economy. This has broad bipartisan support. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this act, and I urge them to fully fund the CTE programs and reject the proposed…

I want to thank my colleague from Massachusetts. I am glad to share in this bipartisan moment of admiration for his work with my colleague from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so…

the studies from Louisiana, from Indiana, from Ohio, all show that students who choose private schools in voucher programs have experienced 'significant losses in achievement.'

I believe this kind of attitude is why it is so difficult for people struggling to survive with opioid use to gain effective treatment.

You were recently in Indiana, where you called opponents of school choice flat-earthers.

The President and I do agree on one thing: designing a healthcare system is complicated. But the effects of TrumpCare are as simple as they are devastating: 24 million hardworking Americans will lose their coverage; your healthcare costs…

That is what it is. The families in my district, across this country, this is an issue that doesn't care if it is a red State, blue State, what level of education attainment you have, how much money is in your bank account, it is an equal…