Marcia Fudge

It is important that we move expeditiously to determine why, and why they have not requested the resources that are necessary to contain the sediment.

Despite the great progress made in reversing past environmental damage, we find ourselves locked in an ongoing battle over this seemingly non-controversial issue.

Lake Erie provides drinking water to millions, and supports thousands of jobs, and contributes over $1 billion to our local economies.

There are a lot of problems in our States that have nothing to do with flexibility, absolutely nothing.

I am pleased to be here today to discuss the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act.

I do believe that this bipartisan law will fulfill the Elementary and Secondary Education Act's promise to promote and protect the right to educational opportunity for all of the Nation's most vulnerable children.

I wish we would spend as much time on the schools that educate 95 percent of all our children than the schools that represent 5 percent.

I am certainly hopeful they will be on my side as it relates to making sure that we are accountable for the dollars that we take from taxpayers.

They want public money but they want freedom. Is that what you said? They should not report on tax dollars?

I just wish that my colleagues would fight as much for those with no choice as they do for those who have a choice.

Are you concerned about those as much as you are concerned about this?

We want the states to have these authorities, but then the states make decisions that are not based upon the highest need.

So that is why I am so afraid about doing something like block granting SNAP to states, because they make those kinds of decisions.

However, when the governor sought a waiver, he only sought it for rural communities. Does that make any sense to you at all?

We need to continue to be the best by making sure we have a workforce that is able to keep us on the top.

America once again needs to build and make things. We have always been the Nation that everyone looked to for quality.

The racial divide is compounded when funding streams for hands-on, short-term education and career training are cut.

The importance of CTE cannot be overstated--its programs equip our nation's students with the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving 21st century economy.

We must do everything we can to maintain and strengthen these programs.

The importance of CTE cannot be overstated. Its programs equip our Nation's students with the skills they need to succeed.

730 days; 17,520 hours; 1,051,200 minutes; 2 full years since the Supreme Court ruled section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional; 2 full years without voter protections and full access to the ballot box. Since the ruling…

You are helping them in one respect, but you are holding them down in another.

The very people that you all represent, low-income people--they are the ones who need it the most.

It is a penalty on employers who work their employees excessive hours.

It is supply and demand. That is just basic, simple economics.