Todd Russell Platts: “But the long-term return is dramatically more than what it is going to cost, and that is the difficulty for us as a…”

Access to affordable, quality education--basic education and higher education--is key to us remaining that land of opportunity

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.

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

I am the lead Republican with Mr. Donnelly on the America Works Act, which is to then promote the--what has been discussed here to some degree already--the nationally recognized, very portable skill credentials.