We must now explore whether the accreditation system is also due for reforms.

Why do you continue to pursue flawed regulations and what changes to the regulations are you considering?

Aren't you using the federal regulatory process to push states into regulating institutions according to a federal prescription?

I don't know who it was who said, 'There are lies, damned lies, and then statistics.'

Let me be really clear here: children in your congressional district aren't competing for jobs in your district or in your state; they are competing for jobs with children in Singapore, in South Korea, in India, in China, in Russia, in…

Mr. Secretary, the program integrity regulations have been the center of intense scrutiny from the higher education community and Members on both sides of the aisle in Congress.

I think we educate people and we train animals.

You should be ashamed of that. I should be ashamed of that. Everyone here should be ashamed of that.

We spent $10,995. So if you want to look at it as a percentage of GDP, but we are really not comparing apples and apples.

The federal government is trying to impose itself at the post-secondary level in this area.

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