Carolyn McCarthy

One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with disabilities or special needs, which obviously is a burden onto our public schools because they bring down the test…

Our competition is you and we are going to be ready for you.

cutting $86 billion for Pell Grants is going to hurt everybody, and I certainly hope that you continue to fight that as we go forward on this.

Small businesses are the engine of our Nation's economy, and by enhancing their access to credit and lending opportunities, jobs will be created.

We have been working, and we did work, on legislation to have transparency and clarity on what caused the economical crisis.

We have 15 million people unemployed. We have nine million people underemployed.

I was pleased that the healthcare reform law includes language requiring employers to provide reasonable break times and private space for nursing mothers on the job.

I think the Department of Labor has done a great job on a variety of fronts, and I commend you for your commitment to American workers.

The SAVE Act called for meaningful and practical steps to improve accountability, accuracy, and transparency to our nation's parents and educators in the reporting of school crimes and violence.

Violence and bullying prevention is necessary to a successful academic career. We need to take these threats seriously and we must act on them to prevent further tragedies.

It is a parent's worst nightmare to send a child to school only to learn that the child has become a victim of a crime or other incident * * * [w]e see acts of bullying that quickly escalate into outbreaks of violence.

If our young people are not involved in the decisions that we are making, ... it is not going to mean anything.

I am going to make something happen.

I came to Congress as a result of violence, and I have worked for years to try to reduce violence in our schools and in our country.

the federal data grossly underestimates the extent of school violence.

By increasing the accuracy of school violence reporting, we can make sure federal dollars are going to these schools that truly need it most.

As a nurse for over 30 years, I have seen firsthand what violence does to students and their families.

Financial literacy is a big concern of mine. Especially in the current economic climate, consumers need to be more aware and informed of how their finances work and how to avoid some common financial pitfalls.

I hope that as we start dealing with education in whatever our new leave no child behind bill is going to be--I am hoping that we can put safety issues in there so we don't have parents here in this kind of testimony, because I have to…

Childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease are all on the rise in the US.

One of the best tools we have to combat these illnesses is our ability to provide wholesome and healthy nutrition to children in school.

We are not going to be raising the scores of the children in the under-served areas, unless we make sure that those kids are ready when they come to school.

I fully support eliminating the Tiahrt language.

It is time that the ATF was able to fully share crime gun trace data.

if we invested an extra 25 cents per child, we would save so much money because that child wouldn't go into the juvenile justice system.