We need to make investments to support student and staff wellbeing, and we need to bring in more counselors, nurses, and psychologists.

Secretary Cardona, you have the ability to help this situation.

We cannot continue under-investing in education and think that we are going to continue to produce students that are going to lead the world.

The student debt crisis is limiting young people's life and career choices.

This is not just the cost of tuition and fees I am talking about, but housing, food, childcare, unexpected bills that can quickly derail a student's plans.

Mr. Secretary, the President's budget calls for major new investments in our Nation's public, elementary, and secondary schools, totaling $66 billion.

The only way a student borrower can get bankruptcy relief for student loans is if she can demonstrate 'undue hardship.'

We have to strengthen and expand Pell. And this budget is a clear step in the right direction.

I think it is important that the Department begins communicating to those borrowers early and often.

This bill does that. The American Family Plan boldly communicates that.

We have a student debt crisis that isn't going to resolve itself.

I introduced that earlier this year and it's a bill that will provide really needed relief to public transportation agencies through the Capital Investment Grant Program by increasing the Federal cost-share by an additional 30 percent of…

I was really pleased to see the proposed levels of investment for the Department of Transportation in the President's budget, especially with regard to transit funding and the TIGER-BUILD-RAISE Discretionary Grant Program.

I believe they belong in an infrastructure package and to that end, I recently co-sponsored the Bridge Investment Act.

I appreciate your work on that, but I do want to urge you and the FTA Administrator Fernandez to work with our transit agencies on the ground out there to get what we need for the grant agreement.

Investing in our transit systems and our agencies is really important as we talk about reauthorizing the nation's surface transportation programs and an infrastructure package.

I always say a budget is a reflection of your values. And this budget shows President Biden understands the money we spend on schools, students, and public education is an investment in our future.

High quality plans are only successful if they are effectively implemented.

I just wanted to thank you and your staff for all the hard work implementing the American Rescue Plan Act and other COVID-19 Relief Legislation.

That money is so critical to keeping workers on the jobs and trains and buses moving on time and I just want to join everybody in urging you to get that money out as fast as possible.

This budget takes an historic step on that front by proposing a $3 billion increase for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

For years, I have introduced legislation to fix the absurd way that the bankruptcy code treats student debt.

This budget takes the task of reckoning with these inequities seriously, with investments across a range of programs to help ensure all students can get a quality public education.

I am pleased to see that the budget does not include widespread loan forgiveness.

I am concerned that free community college for everybody unfairly subsidizes higher-income students.