Lori Trahan

I strongly support it.

I have no higher priority than to ensure that the residents of my district and of your districts are safe from the kind of preventable disaster that struck the Merrimack Valley last September.

I ask that you give full consideration to H.R. 2139, so that this type of disaster never happens to a community again.

It is apparent to me now more than ever that we need protections in place and watchdogs to hold these institutions accountable.

Funding accessible, high-quality public education is an investment in our children, our economy, and our future.

It is clear to me that you and your Department are either out of touch with people like me who relied on public education and was the first to graduate from college in my family, or you are knowingly putting special interests ahead of our…

The gainful employment rule is a critical consumer protection tool that protects students from low-quality career training programs and for profit colleges.

So one of the main things that concerns me is the continuous change and churn that we have within the Navy.

I do not believe in this budget. It reveals that you and your Department are not equipped to set the educational priorities for this country.

We have an epidemic of schools failing to create contingency plans, wasting taxpayer dollars without answering to anyone on their financial viability.

Budgets are a reflection of our priorities.

It concerns me that states and accreditors are not held more accountable or doing enough to provide these types of students with their return on investment.

Too many institutions have performance gaps by race and income.

Not everyone is going to a 4 year college and signing up for this college experience.

Good afternoon. As students and their families prepare to enroll in college they face mounting costs without any guarantee on their return on investment.

I feel like gatekeeper folks from higher ed institutions need to play a very similar role and not just see their task as recruitment, application, yield, and enrollment, but more of a guidance, a counseling sort of role as they begin to…

we hope there will be justice for [Leonel] and the community. Nobody should ever have to go through what my family has gone through ever again.

the workplace is a single, is the single largest source of health coverage in the United States.

this is a situation in which the tail is wagging the dog, right.

I urge the committee to be bold by strengthening safety standards and mandating professional engineer reviews.

It remains unacceptable that critical rules like the hazardous liquids rule, gas transmission line rule, and the valve and rupture detection rule have not been implemented.

Thank you both very much for your testimony.

This should have never happened.

We need to examine PHMSA's rulemaking process to determine if there are obstacles to more swift promulgations of regulations.

It would be great if we could have visibility into the culture change process just only because it is--I have never seen a stronger culture.