Every one of our babies deserves a system that starts them strong and supports them at every step.

mainly used by a relatively small group of mostly higher income individuals.

Our Nation's high school graduation rates are at their highest level in almost three decades.

It is also time for Congress to act on legislation to give victims the protections they deserve to seek justice.

Furloughs to me are kind of a short-term strategy.

We have 9.4 million low-income students who are now attending college on Pell Grants.

What do we value? Where do we want to put scarce taxpayer dollars? What is important to us growing a vibrant and thriving middle class? Is it locking more people up or is it educating them?

Mental health claims are particular ones because I think a lot of mental health professionals say once somebody gets over that burden of saying, 'Okay, I admit, I need help,' if you do not take advantage of their request for help pretty…

We need to tackle our deficits and debt in a balanced way, with a mix of spending cuts and new revenue from those who can afford it most.

The House budget doubles down on protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Sequestration and a full-year CR will negatively impact companies in the industrial base.

I hope we are going to be revisiting it.

Speaker Boehner has talked about how it would 'hollow our military.'

But do we count that in our, you know, as we measure college graduation or as the international norms measure college completion and they rank us 14th in the world, are they measuring people who do not go to community college?

I think that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit.

Democrats have consistently shown we are willing to do so, and now it is up to Republicans to join us at the table ready to compromise.

The House budget pursues an extreme, cuts-only approach, slashing our investments in education and infrastructure.

I will also continue working to end the terrible epidemic of military sexual assault in the services.

the Senate budget fully replaces sequestration with an equal mix of responsible spending cuts and new revenue from those who can afford it the most

As I have said before, not every veteran will be affected by these invisible wounds. But when a veteran has the courage to stand up and ask for help, the VA must be there every single time.

Republican leaders, who are seemingly rejecting any effort at compromise, will need to put our families and our economy above partisan ideology.

We have not had a race to the top type competition in the higher education space, and that is what we are proposing in this year's budget.

Hundreds of thousands of children will lose access to Head Start programs if sequestration continues.

But as we all know now, it did not work out that way.

Forty States. And if you look at between the late 1980s, when sentencing, mandatory minimums, three strikes you are out started to hit, the growth in State funding for prisons and incarceration dramatically exceeded the growth in State…