Political Quotes

“Lu Ann Nye and her daughter are the kind of folks that are going to be impacted by what is happening here today. She is a courageous woman who had the courage to leave welfare, and go back to Austin Community College, and get a degree to support her daughter. Our Republican friends came after the daughter and her friends when they began cutting school lunch earlier in the year. Now they come after the big brothers, and the big sisters, and the older students, like Lu Ann, and cut into their Federal study financial assistance, and when they cut, it is not just dollars that they are cutting, but the hopes, and the aspirations, and the dreams of a generation of people, up to, as the chairman said, the ranking member said, 150,000 young people on the Perkins loan program. How extraordinary it is that this House is headed by a Speaker who is a sometime professor of history at a time that we are ending an historic Federal commitment to education.”