"I had a job. My father worked in a factory. We had no student loans then."
"We now are requiring our colleges to look at graduation rates, not at the number of students that are in there, to get their funding."
"One of the things we worked on while I was home was some veterans homeless issues."
"veterans who carried the war, that we have as a country placed in harm's way to do what we have asked them to do to protect our freedoms, that now we provide the benefits we promised them, period."
"Students really don't care where the money comes from; they just want the money to go to school."
"I think that is something we could look at."
"it is becoming, as Mr. Hinojosa and Mrs. Biggert have pointed out, much more difficult for young people to afford to go to college now."
"I came to Congress to try to do that. Unfortunately, I wasn't included in the discussion of it very much."
"The ACA already is costing jobs in the health broker community because of misguided regulations concerning the medical loss ration requirements."
"your leadership on health reform issues is particularly important because of your experience as a physician"
"If you like your current [health care] plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that. If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it."