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 would love to have the opportunity on another occasion to talk to you and address this and find out ways we could work...
I believe we can do better than that for these students and for our future.
You are spot on in terms of the need and the importance of forward funding those programs to protect them, just like we ...