Presidents have clearly ignored the requirement to minimize the size of national monuments when proclaiming many of the national monuments created today.

Terror and cowardice will be met with justice and resolve.

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…

We must also work to eliminate federal mandates and red tape that raise costs for schools and prevent innovation.

Despite recent employment gains, these are still tough times for far too many Americans.

The legislation, known as the SKILLS Act, will eliminate waste and better align available education and workforce development programs.

One thing that is important, and one of my colleagues that is here today, Raymond Kelly, the director of our training division, we have to pull together on colleges and pull together industry and have joint conversations with industry and…

We hope this field hearing has been beneficial and that your future travels provide you with additional useful information.

I am particularly glad to be on a community college campus and, I think, to see a group of students with us this morning.

Our nation's economy is only as strong as its workforce.

The SKILLS Act would consolidate and streamline our workforce development processes to make them more efficient.