The Republican budget would cut over 200,000 children from Head Start and would eliminate all mandatory funding for Pell Grants.

These are not savings. You are really making these kids much more expensive to society.

I feel that we should have made much more progress in 36 years.

I have been serving on this committee for 36 years trying to make safety a more important issue for our miners.

I am very proud of the Job Corps facility we have in Flint, Michigan.

You need skills, and those skills--one good thing about the Job Corps is that the flexibility is there.

I have been involved in Congress for 36 years on Indian matters, and then 12 years back in the State Legislature.

We want this money to be distributed, and not just lying somewhere, but have as much justice as we can find.

I think it is not--you know, it costs some dollars, it takes some special training, very often, of the teachers--most often.

While there are many problems with No Child Left Behind, we never have written a perfect bill here on Capitol Hill.

But to look for another special out, which I think you find in this bill, another special out is a step backwards in trying to make progress for those students who really need some special attentions in order to progress.