"Today Democrats see barriers as opportunities to increase Federal power. Republicans see barriers as opportunities to enable individual empowerment."
"If we really want to lift the barriers that stifle Americans trying to enter and thrive in the workplace, we need to propose remedies that reduce the skills gap and prepare individuals to fill the ple..."
"Employment opportunities abound, but the skills gap persists and grows."
"Well, I certainly can concur that we need to do that."
"There is nobody who is a more, who is a greater advocate of community colleges than I am."
"We need to be treating all sectors equally."
"I believe perpetuating this narrative while convenient for institutions of post-secondary education is detrimental to perspective students who will take on more debt and spend more time than perhaps n..."
"I think this is a ridiculous rule."
"We are the source for the future workshop and what we call new collar jobs, jobs that are middle skills that pay well."
"I do not understand why we want to burden people all over this country to pay for programs for prisons by giving them Pell Grants when the States themselves can take care of this."
"One of the things I am proud of is that we as a committee have really begun to talk about skills education in conjunction with what has traditionally been called higher education or as I prefer to cal..."