"The only way that I think that we will eliminate that cycle... is if we deal with it holistically."
"I am very concerned about as many alternatives as possible to juvenile incarceration."
"Basically, going from the current $5 million to $20 million, essentially, you know, quadrupling the current standard, would be financially devastating."
"To me, it seems like a solution in search of a problem."
"To the friends and families of these 29 miners, please know that we continue to remember your loss and are committed to taking steps to prevent tragedies like this in the future."
"That is why yesterday I joined with Ranking Member Bobby Scott to reintroduce the Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act."
"Your work really means life or death for many mine workers, so we appreciate your work."
"We have introduced the Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act of 2015."
"the Pell Grants, as I understand it, many years ago paid about 85 percent of the cost of attending a state college; now it is under a third."
"we see the great progress we have made in getting more of our low and middle-income students to go into college beginning to slow."
"What we are experiencing every night in this country now is no longer just a fashionable thing, if you will."
"We are going to have to explore, Mr. Chairman, reasons and ways in which we are going to change and look at this criminal justice system in a very different kind of way because it is not the same for ..."