We reiterated our support for a less costly, less intrusive federal role in the nation's classrooms.
Improving education in America is a priority for everyone in this room.
I want to take my closing remarks to reemphasize how important I think it is that we go right at that IDEA funding.
We must be extremely cautious about policies that manipulate student loan interest rates and use need-based student aid subsidies as bargain...
I am really disappointed in the lack of any increase in IDEA funding in the president's budget.
These schools need this money now. They can use it now; they know how to use it now.
It just seems to me that the president is missing an opportunity by not putting that in his budget.
I would argue and will argue that the trillion dollars of additional debt that the president's budget places on our children and students is...
I think this is an overreach on your part. I don't believe that the language of the law allows the secretary to provide conditional waivers.
The point is we have to set priorities and my argument is that we ought to have the priority be IDEA funding.
I have spent 36 years on this committee and 36 years in Congress, and this is going to be my last year.