Todd Russell Platts: “I think our commitment needs to be to public education.”

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.

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…

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

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.