Chaka Fattah: “I was for Yucca Mountain, and I am still for Yucca Mountain.”

We still have a need, as the President has laid out, to return the Nation to being the number-one nation in the world producing college-educated adults.

We have a program that works. It works in rural communities and urban communities.

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment even though my opposition is not as apparent as it might otherwise be. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Pennsylvania is recognized for 5 minutes.

I authored it some 17 years ago. Millions of young people have benefited.