We need to do a better job providing assistance to teachers in science, technology, math.

These kids are working two or three jobs. They are just struggling.

We have got to help our young people get that education they need and go to college.

We can think of many other places, I am sure you can, many other subsidies, many other places where we can find the money.

Where would they get the financing? If we want them to stay in school, and my colleagues respectfully asked the questions, what else should they turn to?

Let me make it clear that in my view the deeply flawed House-passed 7-month continuing resolution would slash Pell Grants by more than $3,000,000,000.

I am very pleased that the administration proposed to increase funding for Pell. This is a perfect example of contrasting priorities.

Nowhere is this more evident than the shortage of nurses and nurse faculty.

I don't know how we can achieve the goal of leading the world in college completion by 2020, if the cuts to the Pell program in H.R. 1 were to become law.

I want to thank you for your service, and I would like to highlight your request for an increase of $8,800,000 for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs efforts on behalf of worker rights.

We have to ensure that our trading partners enforce the labor rights provisions of their own laws, as well as our trade agreements, to protect our workforce.