Tom Cole

We have turned this into an extraordinary political issue that presidential candidates kick around.

We asked for a report, and we ought to get it. Nothing wrong with that.

I think if you block grant these to States, a lot of the money that has been set aside specifically for charters honestly is apt to be diverted into the public system.

I have never met a single student or instructor in these programs that didn't think they were worthwhile.

I am really excited about your Pell Grant proposal and your additional investment in career and technical education.

I like the idea that you are willing to break the mold and think about this because we have got a lot of challenges.

You made the statement that, you know, you would rather be accused of doing too much in retrospect than accused of doing too little.

The contrast between what I saw yesterday in the Senate and what I saw here today on both sides of the aisle makes me very proud of our chamber and this subcommittee.

I want to commit to you, again, I look forward to working with you on the supplemental.

This is something that maybe State and local governments need to be looking at, not that I am calling for any decrease in what we do, but maybe they need to be doing a little bit more themselves.

We are going to work with you where we can and then occasionally stop you where we must.

I certainly would be very opposed to that.

I appreciate that. And thank you, and I will do my very best to give you more money than you asked for this that area.

If you do not have enough money in the $2.5 billion you asked for, you will come back and ask for it, additional funds. Is that correct?

I agree with her about Ebola. You know, I don't think you should sacrifice short term here what--this is bad dealing with coronavirus.

I want to thank you, I want to thank the professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health.

I couldn't agree more.

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Fudge).

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), my good friend.

I want to thank the Speaker for her kind and thoughtful remarks. I also want to acknowledge--I am going to follow her example. I think we should keep our mask on when we are doing our normal business but take them off when we are speaking…

Although Rep. Tom Cole and Rep. Betty McCollum championed an amendment to strike this provision from the NDAA, no amendments were allowed to the NDAA and no further debate or consideration could be made.

I want to associate myself very much with the remarks of the chairman and the ranking member on concerns just about the procurement process and, you know, constantly making maybe perfect the enemy of the good.

I advise my friend I am prepared to close whenever she is. In the interim, I will reserve if she has more speakers.

No, I won't yield. I want to yield to another speaker in a moment. You are the one who raised the issue, so I am just going back to the numbers. The numbers here are pretty clear. This is a targeted tax cut for wealthy people in a very few…