Education for me is probably one of our most important responsibilities if we are going to have a workforce that is strong, healthy.

Your budget would cut $9.2 billion from the Department of Education, a cut of 13.6 percent, taking us back to 2002 levels.

This budget reflects the views of an administration filled with people who, frankly, never had to worry about how they were going to pay for their children going to college.

I believe that your budget proposal would do great harm to students in every facet of education, from kindergarten through graduate school and, for those with student loan debt, years beyond.

It would siphon money from public schools to pay for private school vouchers, eliminate more than 22 education investments, including teacher training and after school programs, leaving 1.6 million children without a safe enrichment…

But you don't want to put some sand in the gears or find that there is some part of the machine that has sort of run out of its particular maintenance.

I see I have no time left, but there are many questions I have--after school programs, Pell Grants.

We cannot turn back the clock on lifesaving biomedical research.

If you are age 25 to 34, one-third of all deaths in that age group are opioid fatal overdoses.

Since 1999 sales of opiates in the United States have quadrupled. I am so concerned about this increase...

So since I have 45 seconds left, it is no question in your mind that it is a gateway to cigarettes?