Cutting education priorities is the wrong move at the wrong time.

The Federal Government has an obligation, a sacred responsibility to prepare our children for a competitive global economy.

I respectfully urge this committee to fully fund these critically important economic initiatives at the levels requested in the President's fiscal year 2012 budget.

For every dollar of Federal investment, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership delivers $32 in economic growth.

Nothing is more crucial to our nation's long-term future than an educated citizenry.

We must never balance the budget on the backs of the unemployed, middle-class families, government workers, or seniors.

the economic recovery of my District, the State of Rhode Island, and the nation as a whole demands that we work collaboratively

The key to jump-starting our economy is to put Americans back to work.

In the forum I proposed an analogous statement 'I plan to start my diet by eating cake and ice cream' to illustrate the hypocrisy.

we must sustain those investments that help us create jobs, innovate for the future, and remain competitive in the global marketplace

We are starting down a road of playing Russian roulette with the American economy.

I suspect a lot of these teachers are wondering why are they paying for the sins that were done by others?