Let us call it what it is and it is a tax if you don't buy it.

If the tax credit, the credit that you will get to buy insurance on the exchange, if a veteran chooses to go to the VA for his or her family, those family members can get that tax credit.

I plan to be here in 2015, and to see if we complete these things that we are saying we are going to do.

Somebody has to blink and that would be one of you.

I thank the Chairman. And thank you all, General Shinseki, for being here and all the veterans that are here today.

We have 3.8 million ninth-graders in the country and only 230,000 of them choose a STEM degree in college.

If you don't know where you are going you might end up someplace else.

We have 3 million jobs in this country that are available right now, 12 million unemployed people that haven't been educated.

If you look at Massachusetts, we were told that the number of ER visits were going to go down. They didn't. They went up. That's exactly where they end up. They end up in the emergency room for primary care, which is where they should not…

Today, I don't want to hear excuses. I want to hear solutions.

Is the bubble out there? And the number I read, 35 percent of students who are paying those, or loan recipients it says here, are paying those back are 90 days and above in arrears now.

You cannot go out and see young people--I see students graduate from graduate school and law school and medical school with $200,000, $250,000, $300,000 in debt.