"We have got to help our young people get that education they need and go to college."
"if we want to create jobs, if we believe that education has some role in creating jobs, which I do, then I would not want to be the Congress, again only one other Congress went down $100. But for us t..."
"We can think of many other places, I am sure you can, many other subsidies, many other places where we can find the money."
"I would just say to my colleagues that to me, the most important thing is helping our young people get that education."
"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?"
"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."
"Nowhere is this more evident than the shortage of nurses and nurse faculty."
"And I just want to say at the outset that we all believe in the need for fiscal restraint and that the deficit is out of control."
"But overall, I felt we had to start and try and work in a bipartisan way, and I do want to work together with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle."
"we cannot expect to grow our economy by taking away the services that our constituents use to get back to work."