Gary Peters

It is just further evidence that this is the friendly Committee that you are willing to defer.

I appreciate you holding this important hearing on this topic.

I have been focused, as I think everybody on this Committee has been focused, on how we make the regulatory environment more efficient.

Thank you so much for being here and answering all of our questions.

The strength of public-private partnerships, particularly when it comes to this issue, I think is clearly demonstrated

Would the use of grants, as well, help some of these high schools and colleges be able to develop these programs?

I actually want to continue on some of the themes from Senator Lankford in innovation, making sure that folks have the opportunity to afford education.

Certainly the loan repayment rates are worse in the for-profit industry.

The Federal Government I think has an appropriate role in providing information about higher education to consumers.

I take this issue very seriously, given the fact that we had a major disaster in the state of Michigan.

If there is a pipeline break in that stretch, it would be catastrophic.

Does it make sense to have the Coast Guard have to sign off on a response plan saying that, 'We're the principal agency responsible for cleaning this thing up.'

A recent study by the University of Michigan says that the Straits of Mackinac is the absolute worst place to have an oil disaster anywhere in the Great Lakes basin.

I have two responses. One, this is not President Obama's agenda. This is the agenda of a bipartisan report, Risky Business, the Department of Defense, and a number of other people who have recognized this is a real problem we have to…

We are all committed and have a solemn duty to take care of those who have taken care of us.

I hope you take a strong interest in this and understand the seriousness of it.

This is about saving lives. It has been estimated that up to 80 percent of all auto crashes could be eliminated.

I certainly appreciate his desire to open up that band, but I also want to thank the Committee for slowing down that process.

We have to get this right.

We will recognize a very unfortunate 5-year anniversary of the worst oil spill disaster on land in the United States.

Let us remember that pipelines can also be an operation that is fraught with potential problems.

This is a big job ahead of you but one that is absolutely critical.

How do you clean that up? It may not even be possible to clean up until it does absolutely catastrophic damage to the environment and to the drinking water supplies for people.

More than two-thirds of the health care costs are heavily influenced by consumer behaviors

We are continuing on this downward slope in basic research, which is our basic seed corn for our country.