To respond. Mr. Speaker, I want to remind people that, of the people affected and the people that routinely work overtime, complying with the rule will add less than one-tenth of 1 percent to U.S. payrolls. The costs to nonprofits and to…

Just to acknowledge the retirement of the Chair. I have only been ranking member for this Congress, but we have been able to work together constructively for elementary and secondary education, juvenile justice, career and technical…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the terrorist attacks perpetrated against our Nation 15 years ago killed nearly 3,000 people. No one can fully fathom the grief still felt by families to lose their loved ones in such a…

If there is a surprisingly good market, how would the employee benefit?

So the employees take the downside risk. What about the upside, who enjoys the upside surprise?

Frankly, it is like having a pizza. You don't have more pizza if you cut it into slices; you still have the same amount of money.

I urge my colleagues to support the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the bill, and I would like to say a few brief words about the package of higher education bills being considered today. These bills will simplify the financial aid…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of H.R. 4539. The 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act was introduced earlier in the Senate by Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and I was proud to introduce the House…

No doubt you have good intentions, Mr. Secretary, but you do not have the legal authority to do this. I strongly urge you to abandon this flawed scheme.

If a locality is chronically underfunding certain schools, is there not an obligation to come up with some appropriate equitable funding outside of the ESSA?

I am proud of our collective efforts to craft a strong bipartisan law that was worthy of the President's signature.

As I indicated, since the Brown decision, there is a constitutional responsibility to provide an equal educational opportunity.

And then supplement and not supplant would mean that you would have to supplement over what your legal obligation is, is that right?

I look forward to dialogue with both Secretary King and the panel of expert witnesses concerning the Department of Education's ongoing efforts to provide states and school districts with the clarity and guidance necessary to ensure…

Every child in every school deserves an excellent education and the only way to achieve that, though, is to restore State and local control.

We cannot go back to the days when the Federal Government dictated national education policy. It did not work then and it will not work now.

Last month, the GAO released a study that I requested, along with former Ranking Member George Miller and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, on segregation in public schools K-12.

Should we be able to withhold school improvement resources?

It assumes you guys do not know what you are doing and that is really frustrating.

Those are where the concerns are coming from.

We will keep fighting for through the appropriations process.

I've been frustrated to hear from many stakeholders that they don't feel like they have a seat at the table as their States work on implementation.

I'll continue to encourage stakeholders like all of those represented here today and many more to stay active and make their voices heard throughout the implementation process.

I hear from teachers and principals in my home State of Washington about how important Federal funding is to supporting their work.