There is limited career path for these workers as compared to say coming to work in the healthcare field.

I do and it was because quite frankly the women of the House were now on the Armed Services Committee

we think this could be the germination of where we could get some good bipartisan support

I am going to be introducing my Ready to Learn Act which creates a new grant program in ESEA to fund high quality pre-kindergarten opportunities.

For the boys it must be impactful to have a male family coordinator--because let's be candid about the workforce.

I hope this really sets the framework for the way this subcommittee will focus, very content-rich...

I can't thank you more for making this the topic of our initial hearings and I look forward to working with you this Congress.

When Head Start began every Head Start Program had to have a family coordinator

the Head Start coordinator was a different kind of audit.

So for the Federal Government we have inconsistency, incredible inconsistency.

What we have to do is learn the lessons from those two programs, and that is part of why I say define the field.

The most important thing I do is build relationships with the families, to the kids, to the school, to the principal, to everybody.

You can't see it for war either.

I think those are three excellent ones.

We are also looking for Senator Franken to ask his questions.

We need to just look at what we pay now, so we don't pay later.

And of course our friend, Senator Casey, introduced some important legislation yesterday.

I recently introduced the LEARN Act which is a program to provide Federal support for comprehensive State and local literacy programs.

I think that is excellent. I would say to my colleagues, because I know PNC is in Maryland...

Workforce and workforce development would be a total issue here.

I hope that we can hear more about what the Administration intends for those grant awards from you today, Dr. Lombardi.

I think it was time well spent.

We need to make sure that we have a set of rules for who we help that doesn't add to student debt.

I think we can do better without necessarily having to enact new laws.

I don't want that to turn into a hollow opportunity.