David Price: “The neighborhoods hardest hit by the subprime crisis have been those where minority residents predominate.”

I urge my colleagues to sit up and take notice of this. This is quite an amendment--quite a radical amendment. It indiscriminately would cut a total of 36 percent from programs in Transportation and Housing without any regard for the…

We have about 4,100 unfilled teaching positions, paraprofessionals, other staff.

I remember when I first became chair of this subcommittee some years ago, we had a hearing with ICE.

We have got a bill that creates incentives for teachers to stay in the profession.