Todd Russell Platts: “When it comes to a victim of a crime, we need to make that a priority.”

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.

If the gentlelady will yield, I would add it's been a great privilege to serve with you here and to travel. You'll enjoy a story from that trip when we were visiting the Special Forces in the Philippine Islands. This past September, I was…

If we have extra money let's keep our word first to the public schools.

I think our commitment needs to be to public education.