If anybody wants to skewer anybody on the NEGREG process, it ought to be us because we set it up and not the Secretary.

Can you confirm you did not set those terms and conditions, but that Congress determined those qualifications?

I think the PSLF Program which is projected to cost $24 billion over the next 10 years, I think we probably could have found better places to have used that money.

I could not disagree more.

I thank my colleague from Arizona for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill. The Violence Against Women Act, originally enacted in 1994, was reauthorized twice with broad bipartisan support…

But in reality, we are talking about people's lives. Every student that isn't served well is a life that is losing time, losing potential, losing its impact.

This should be a conversation about all students, all institutions, all taxpayer dollars.

I thought we were here for students. We want to make sure there is accountability in how institutions are serving students.

We believe women should not be discriminated against. We don't want women discriminated against, women of any category in this country, and this amendment is not necessary and neither is H.R. 7. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote…

I know that my colleague was not on the floor earlier when I spoke and told of my need to work even before I was a teenager, and I worked for survival. So I know that she did not know that and did not know that I do not take lightly the…

My colleague just said that Latina women are being paid 53 cents for every dollar a White man earns for the same work. That is currently illegal and should be reported. My colleague may want to amend her statement on that, but I want to…

Again I say, Republicans abhor any type of discrimination, particularly pay discrimination against women. Madam Chair, if H.R. 7 would help with the situation that my colleague described, we would be in favor of it. No woman should be…