John Kline

Rather than restrict access to an entire sector of colleges, we need to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their education and career goals.

But we should not deny students the opportunity to attend the college of their choice and gain the valuable skills they need to compete in the workforce.

I understand there is an alternative in the regulation that was supposed to address this, why isn't that good enough?

We hope that you are looking at this vigorously. We hope that there is cooperation with the SEC and that we will get an answer.

But my question goes back to we keep spending more money, and at some point it has got to stop.

I don't think that is a place where you should be cutting back and you have to continue to invest.

We are either going to put ourselves in a competitive advantage or we are going to continue to lose not the low skill jobs, but the high skill jobs which are really the jobs of the future.

The decision to say no to Pell grants--again, you can use the one Pell grant for summer--is not one that I enjoyed or wanted to make

I think we have a chance to provide some substitution for what has been, you know, a tough Federal role for good reason.

I am sure in many cases we are not. I concur there. But we are so far off.

It just seems to me that our priorities aren't right.

I was always hoping for a bigger step, and I hope that we will get to one of those.

I was pleased to see in your budget an elimination of some 13 programs.

Responsibility, reform, and results are the hallmarks of our budget and our Administration and the guiding principles as we move forward.

We have to be truthful with each other and truthful with the American people about what is and isn't working.

I look forward to hearing from you, Mr. Secretary, about how we can get this country back on track and what we can do to help students succeed.

We can't afford to lose a generation of children because our best intentions didn't work as well as they should have.

If we don't hold our schools accountable for ALL the children in their classrooms, we fail.

Our children deserve more. Our country deserves more.

Inaction here is one of the biggest threats to the future of this country, to our economic stability and our global competitiveness.

This kind of spending is unsustainable and keeps Pell Grants on the path to bankruptcy.

Despite the near tripling of overall per-pupil funding since 1965, national academic performance has not improved.

It is no secret our current education system is failing.

We have to make tough choices now to ensure this important program remains available for the students who need it most.

I am disappointed to see this lack of leadership in the administration's budget proposal for the Department of Education...