Ron Wright: “If a school district or a state is choosing to spend their money on more administrators instead of teachers, that is a…”

Any suggestion that anyone up here or any political party has a monopoly on caring for children is just ludicrous and insulting.

But what is really entertaining to me is to hear over and over again people on the other side saying that the United States is lagging behind.

I mean, this is the two--the two points that I really want to drive home in this hearing. The first is that we didn't do enough to protect people in nursing homes who are disproportionately non-White.

As we have heard today, there is bipartisan agreement that Department of Labor oversight of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund has fallen short for decades during both Democrat and Republican administrations.