Kay Hagan

This is a challenge that must be addressed immediately and for all students and for all workers.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order.

Just having world-class standards will not produce world-class students.

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have set the goal that by 2020, the United States will once again lead the world in college completion.

I think we have got to be sure that these rural areas in North Carolina have access to broadband technology.

I think growing your own teachers in rural areas is critical, and I think we have also seen that in the medical field, as well.

We definitely need you.

If we can get more people to go to our rural areas to practice medicine, and become teachers, I think it would be advantageous for those rural areas.

Education is not simply about teaching, learning and graduating. Education is the basis for economic prosperity.

It is important that you all really totally fund our Title I and our IDEA programs.

Thank you, Senator Hagan for your leadership, and holding this hearing in a State that has been dedicated to innovation since well before the Wright Brothers' first flight on North Carolina's coast.

I thank the Senator from Virginia for helping us come together to talk about this issue because it is of critical importance. In North Carolina, we have two justices for the Fourth Circuit Court coming before this body. They were heard in…

We know that Iran's nuclear weapons program, along with its military assistance to groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, serves as a threat to our national security interest.

I would contest the idea that the balance of power is shifting to our enemies.

To my knowledge, no firms have been sanctioned under the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) since its enactment in 1996.

Despite the fact that many Iranian reformists are now in prison, and there are many that believe that the Green challenge of the most recent election has significantly narrowed the base of the regime to hard-line purists that are backed by…

During the 2006 Lebanon war between Hezbollah and Israel, as well as during the 2007-2008 Gaza conflicts between Hamas and Israel, both Hamas and Hezbollah demonstrated weapons arsenals that were larger than many other small nations.

not only do we need teachers, we need the school psychologists, we need the school social workers.

DOD has devoted significant resources, I know, to the development of the fifth-generation strike aircraft that are intended to operate in environments with significant and advanced air defense systems.

When you were talking about the KPP and the vehicle, what's been done so far?

I strongly believe that we need to do a better job at acknowledging that while our students are in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, we need to acknowledge that before it is too late.

North Carolina is obviously one of the States that is affected. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by overmatch.

I think several of us have sent letters, but it's certainly something that's of concern, I'm sure, to the States that are affected by this.

I think those are extremely important and not only for our Nation, but certainly for our servicemembers.

We can no longer continue to allow chronically under-performing schools to get away with improperly serving our students.