Todd Russell Platts: “We have to provide much greater transparency so young people and their families can make good choices.”

My concern is that the president's budget proposal is trying to reinvent the wheel at the expense of proven and critically needed Perkins programs.

Congress, we are not going to let Medicare provider reimbursements drop 25 percent or more now, or I would contend, ever, because of what it would mean to seniors getting access.

A key to our success was having an educated citizenry if we were to be an effective democracy.

And public education, and one of our colleagues who we both had the privilege to serve under when he was chair of our committee as well.