Chaka Fattah: “The need is clear. To reduce the budget by 55 percent would be catastrophic.”

I would be happy to concur with the chair's every utterance on this amendment that we will work together and help facilitate what I think is a very righteous effort on behalf of Congressman Jeffries to protect the rights of all Americans…

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