I think most of my Republican colleagues share that view. We think we live in an extraordinarily dangerous world right now.
I simply think that is a wrong sense of priority.
Tom, you can have a deal or you can have a fight, but you can't have both.
I will be very clear there, and I don't do this in any kind of way to try and start a fight or whatever.
I think that reflects, Mr. Secretary, partly a great deal of confidence in you on both sides of the aisle.
I love the Appropriations Committee. I mean, I really tell people I don't care if you are on the left or the right, the ...
This proposal, in my view, exacerbates that.
I really want to work to keep those disagreements in balance to where we could still have a bipartisan outcome and a bip...
I think we can make those efforts bipartisan.
I believe we can do better than that for these students and for our future.
I would love to have the opportunity on another occasion to talk to you and address this and find out ways we could work...