This budget is not only full of gimmicks that mask the true cost of protecting the homeland, but it also fails to address the policy driven crisis that continues at the border.

Despite the tight fiscal constraints that were placed on us, I was also pleased to secure a $20,000,000 increase for IDEA grants to States.

Last year, House Republicans proposed a destructive 80-percent cut to Title I, the cornerstone of our Federal investment in public education.

Horace Mann called education 'a great equalizer of conditions of men.'

I am proud of where we ended up with the 2024 appropriations bill, but there is still unmet need in education.

I was proud to work with Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate to complete the work on the fiscal year 2024 Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education funding bill.

At a time when our Nation faces skyrocketing debt and inflation, we should be targeting investments in education in what works, not duplicative, ideological programs that merely sound great but no difference in the learning process.

I think you need to deliver to Congress a plan to replenish the SPR.

I hope your Department's delay in finalizing this misguided rule signals that the administration agrees with most of America that this proposal would harm women and girls in sports and set them back decades.

Rather than create more new programs along with additional bureaucracy that would require our educational budget, needs to focus back on just barely the basics.

commonsense, community-centered conservation helps restore habitats and endangered wildlife, lifts up economies, and makes communities more secure.