Postsecondary education helps millions of low-and middle-income students reach economic success.

We have certainly heard that excessive requirements block eligible students by making the process just altogether too complex to receive aid.

I am proud of my State for taking steps to automatically enroll students in tuition free opportunities.

The FAFSA delays continue to demonstrate the impacts on people's lives when Federal programs are just too complex for the average person to navigate.

These are unacceptable issues that we have seen with the redesign and the rollout of processing FAFSA this year.

I would just remind my colleagues that no President has ever been able to detain everybody that is required by law because we have never appropriated that amount of money. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York…

I thank the gentlewoman for her remarks, and I yield back the balance of my time.

For the second time in less than 2 months, with another shutdown looming, we are wasting our time on a meaningless immigration resolution full of empty rhetoric whose sole purpose seems to be to justify Republicans' lack of desire to…

This lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden.

It seems to me that the crux of the report--the main story is that you found insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that President Biden willfully retained any classified materials.

Unfortunately, right winged pundits have targeted these programs over claims that these programs are racist.

They clearly overreached. I find it concerning that the race conscious admissions decision is being misapplied to prevent schools from helping students of color.

Today's hearing appears to be an attempt by my Republican colleagues to justify their inability and lack of desire to act in a bipartisan fashion.

I was the first Member of Congress to go and meet with separated moms detained in Federal prison.

Thanks to Democratic oversight efforts, we know the tragic results of Donald Trump's cruel family separation policy today.

This diluted thinking found its way into State policies that discouraged institutions from supporting students of color.

Diversity, equity and inclusion programs play a necessary role in fulfilling that promise of a postsecondary education by connecting students with support.

Every student deserves a welcoming and supportive learning environment, and that's particularly important for students from backgrounds that have faced decades of exclusionary practices and policies.

The best way to help secure the border is to expand lawful pathways and adequately fund the immigration system.

The evidence clearly indicates that your zero-humanity policy was intended to permanently separate children from their parents.

However, Republicans won't agree to that. Why? Because it would help make the situation at the border better, and they don't want that under any circumstance. They would rather continue the cruelty: The cruelty of seeing migrants fleeing…

Despite the title of this hearing and the claims by the majority, immigrants are a huge engine of economic growth for the American economy.

Any indications that they do not is excluding the contributions of undocumented immigrants as well as documented immigrants.

In H.R. 2 it would eliminate the Uniting for Ukraine Program. I have an amendment to keep that in and Republicans voted against it.

I want to clarify that undocumented immigrants and documented immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy.