I am not yet ready to say that we have solved the problem of higher education access for students from lower-income families in this country.

Thank you again for your important contribution to the work of the committee.

Thank you for testifying before the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training at the hearing entitled, 'Keeping College within Reach: The Role of Federal Student Aid Programs.'

I urge Congress to keep our national priorities in the right place for low income students with great promise and high need, ensuring strong and durable federal financial aid programs so that students today and far into the future can…

I am very pleased to see that the President seems to have embraced Republicans' proposal to shift the calculation of student loan interest rates away from Washington politicians and toward a market-based formula.

Our hearts go out to him and all of the people of Massachusetts today for what happened in Boston yesterday.

Terror and cowardice will be met with justice and resolve.

The excessive size of many National Monuments is an issue because the agencies that manage them frequently act to restrict access to the land for recreational use, energy development, grazing, and other purposes.

It is time for this practice to stop.

Congress must act to ensure consideration of the local impact of Presidential national monument designations.

A Western Governors Association study shows that motorized recreation provided over $250 billion in economic impact in 2011.