"It's critical that we do this despite my colleague's focus sometimes on a limited set of defunct proprietary claims."
"Pumping additional dollars into the Pell Grant problem will not solve the serious underlying issues plaguing the higher education sector."
"Institutions with poor Pell Grant completion rates should be held accountable."
"We want to support our students. We want to give them every single one, regardless of socioeconomic status, a chance for opportunity for growth."
"A Pell Grant should not be allowed so often to be a ticket to nowhere."
"I've been very vocal about administrative bloat."
"I think that everybody agrees that Pell Grants have been an extraordinary and powerful tool in helping low-income students across this Nation access a post-secondary education."
"Instead, the answer is to pour more money into a system that honestly is broken, and has been failing our students, and saddling them with tremendous debt."
"Congress created a very generous Federal student aid system."
"I truly understand the difficulties of the burdens that we're now placing upon students in overwhelming debt."
"Sadly, the truth is that colleges and universities, not the students, are the major beneficiaries of the Pell Grant program."