Supporting higher education remains a top priority in Washington.

Congress has a responsibility to explore ways we can strengthen and streamline federal student aid programs.

We have a moral and economic obligation to ensure that all qualified students who want to attend college can afford to go.

We are going through a process here where we are addressing a problem that is increasingly recognized as a problem for our country.

While my Republican colleagues and I continue to support the basic principles of competition and transparency to help encourage lower costs in higher education, we remain concerned that such policies could lead to federal price controls…

But we need to move away from a system that allows Washington politicians to use student loan interest rates as bargaining chips, creating uncertainty and confusion for borrowers.

I mean certainly subscriptions are helpful.

Drastic additional cuts to this committee would affect committee product.

Don't punish the good actors. Don't punish the good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I am urging the committee to help us with that if you can.

I hope the committee takes these important activities into account as they determine our budget.

We need to take a look at how teachers are being supported by their school boards and administrators.