That is a number that should keep everyone up at night, and that is a number that has been exacerbated through this policy, unfortunately, of subsidizing higher education at a rate that is just breathtaking from the Federal level.

For-profit schools, their tuition and fees have gone down 12.5 percent over the same time period.

It needs to be stated over and over and over again that the court ordered the Department to do that.

The Democrat Party is obsessed with so-called facts about for-profit schools.

The category of school with the highest completion rates? For-profit, two-year institutions.

The truth is that Congress has failed in its obligation to produce laws and statutes that serve in the interest of students.

That needs to be talked about more.

I invest a lot of time in these hearings, and I'm on two committees. And honestly, on this subject we have the most experts in the Congress of any subject that I am aware of, bar none.

Proprietary institutions, unlike the other sectors of postsecondary education, are responding to consumer demand for cheap--less expensive education.

the strategy may be politically convenient for them, but it tells me and the American people they do not care about the vast majority of students

Time is more valuable than money and, I mean, you can always replace money. You cannot replace time.

I have to just take exception to your suggestion that the Federal Government requires States to have articulation agreements.