We all know that post-secondary education is required for most family sustaining middle-class jobs and that an educated workforce is essential to a modern, productive economy.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for providing this opportunity.
I believe is a critical area of needed reform for our student aid programs and higher education more broadly.
This is a growing drag on our economy.
our response will be, as it has been to date, unsatisfactory.
For fiscal year 2015 and beyond, how will NIH ensure that the funds previously allocated to the National Children's Stud...
We want to work with you to understand better the shift of the resource funds.
We want to tee up for an opportunity in the future.
That would be another reason why we need more----
But let me raise at least one issue of concern, and that's the proposed elimination of the Beach Act Grant Program.
We need to think creatively about how water is going to be essential for our continued economic growth.