If the accreditors don't do it, I can assure you the Congress can't.

We're seeking to identify five or six things that need fixing in the next 6 months to a year.

Doctors should absolutely record the information necessary to inform themselves in the future when they need to review the patients history.

My recommendation is to seek ways to remove documentation burdens under new health care transformation programs.

I cannot think of a better way to encourage the study of United States History and what it means to be an American than to make sure that our Presidential homes are properly cared for.

Well we claim three, Jackson, Polk and Andrew Johnson.

I would hope that you would give as much priority as you can to this home because, as I mentioned, according to Arthur Schlesinger survey of historians, Polk was ranked ninth among the presidents, among the near greats.

I am delighted that the Department supports legislation to take the next step in making President Polk's home part of the National Park Service.

Don't you think it would be appropriate for the Presidential home of the President who created the Department of Interior, the home of the National Park Service, to be managed by the National Park Service?

I want to thank Senator Murphy for his bipartisan gesture which I assume amounts to a co-sponsor of my bill about President Polk.

I believe we should stop telling students they can't afford college.

Give us more flexibility, give us fewer Federal definitions and fewer maintenance of efforts, and let us put the money where the priorities are.

Why would you adopt a policy of more Federal mandates when it's Federal Medicaid mandates, in my opinion, that have basically caused the higher tuition fees?

TRIO programs do work, but they only impact 1 of 20 eligible students that need them.

You put matching funds on the table for States that put money into higher education or at least, at this time, maintain the current funding levels in per-student funding for higher education.

I believe the answer for most Americans is, yes. And for millions, 2 years of college is free.

The key, is protecting those models and protecting the institutions that have done exactly what you said.

It's exactly true that as State support for the University of Tennessee or LSU goes down, or California, tuitions go up.

The richest institutions in this country, the ones that are most capable of serving larger low-income populations, have the smallest number of low-income students.

It is unfair and untrue to make students think that they can't afford college.

Any bill that addresses that issue, that encourages us to attract, retain, and graduate more low-income students must be consistent with keeping our States--their tax effort and per-student spending at a certain level in order to receive…

I think that we have $170 billion at the Federal level going into revenues for higher education, and we need to utilize as much of that as possible.

You ought to take a look at the institutions that are fighting against this type of information.

The burden will be transferred to the Federal Government, and we will have a Federal system of higher education.

We're completely negating any increase in student aid each and every year, if we don't close the back door.