Hope to is not a definite timeframe.

I want to make sure that we maintain a domestic industrial base that can respond to the ongoing need of our warfighters.

I am very worried about our domestic industrial base. I am worried about its long-term ability to provide our military forces with what they need to accomplish their national security missions.

And we do not have the budget capacity for that?

Now this administration often has stressed to us the importance to implementing reforms that we know and can prove are effective.

I am pleased that your budget proposal has some significant increases in Pell grants, teacher quality, State grants, school leadership for principals, and literacy efforts.

I think the community colleges play a huge role in this, sort of, trajectory of education continuum.

I share President Obama's goals, and as a long-time advocate for job training and education programs for our workers, I am glad to have a strong partner in the White House.

I look forward to further conversations with you on that.

I was very pleased to see that you and the President are preparing to tackle or more appropriately, put a full-court press on a lot of the large issues facing us in education today.

the only way this works is when you do it in collaboration.

I share that goal, and as a long-time advocate for job training and education programs, it's great to have a strong partner in the White House on that.

I think we have to bridge that gap and as I told you, I will be shortly introducing legislation, again, to bring together all the players.

I am proud that our work together to pass a strong Recovery package is beginning to help States like Washington keep more teachers in their jobs.

I know that a strong, sustained investment in Head Start is the only way that this program can continue to be effective.

Thank you Chairman Harkin and Senator Cochran for holding today's hearing to discuss the need to invest in education and prepare our young people to succeed in school and beyond.

My concern is that the program that goes out to the States, so it sounds good when you say it to us, I just want to know how it's going to be implemented?

I think that's a promising idea.

I am more interested in what I call the opportunity gap, of how we get the best and brightest educators.

So our work on the Recovery package to support our schools is very important.

My position is really clear, and the administration is going to have to expect it to remain consistent, because that's what I want for these budgets.

We've got to move forward toward a clean energy economy and this will help keep us on that path.

America's working families are facing some of the toughest economic challenges in a generation.

I believe that this administration is committed to making working families a priority once again in this country.

I believe that adult education and literacy is a very important component of the workforce system.