ESSA will ensure that all students have a chance to receive a world-class education from their neighborhood public school.

Today we are unleashing a new era of innovation and excellence in student achievement.

This is very interesting to me, and I thank you for your suggestions.

I remember being dropped off at the top of the Great Smoky Mountains as a 15-year-old walking through the snow knowing that I was on my own.

We did not do a very good job of doing anything about a big, ugly cell tower at the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park where a million people come through every day.

I remember going through the Grand Canyon when the only form of communication was the telephone booth in the middle.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your courtesy.

We were heartened by the bipartisan effort being spearheaded by Senators Alexander and Murray.

Yes, I believe that guidance can absolutely be improved with greater input.

Please vote to confirm him as soon as possible, so he may continue to defend Veterans and people with disabilities from workplace discrimination.

We have shown in this committee on actually issues that are larger and more difficult than this one should be that we know how to take very contentious and difficult issues and get a result.

There's not any money up here to give to anybody, really. We just have to borrow it from somebody's grandchildren.

we greatly appreciate the committee inviting input from the physician community

We spent too much time on insurance and not enough time on the cost of health care.

We have been stuck in a partisan political stalemate for 7 years on health insurance.

Whether it was the founding of the Nation-leading MinnesotaCare program 25 years ago that provides health coverage to low-income working Minnesotans, or leveraging Federal programs to develop smarter payment models for lower cost and…

In Minnesota, we are fortunate to have a long history of bipartisan cooperation and innovation on health care.

Thank you, Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for holding these bipartisan hearings. I'm honored to be part of this important conversation.

What can Congress and the President do between now and the end of the month to help limit premium increases in 2018?

Americans in some counties, literally, will have no insurance to buy because insurance companies will pull out of collapsing markets.

My request to this committee this morning is that you do two things: first, that you move quickly to stabilize the individual insurance marketplace; then second, that you would undertake a serious effort to work together to address the…

It is an honor to be here with this group of Governors who I consider friends and who I know to be problem solvers.

Congress should take steps now to prevent the total collapse of the health insurance market by: No. 1, funding cost share reduction payments; two, creating a short-term reinsurance program; and three, providing flexibility to the States.

Tennessee's experience of fewer choices at higher costs is not sustainable.

We are a country with $20 trillion in debt with even more staggering debt projections.