Derrick Van Orden

I also share some concerns about this, not from that perspective, but from the perspective if you go from pre-apprenticeship program to pre-apprenticeship program to pre-apprenticeship program, you may be burning your GI bills.

Success and a 50 percent failure rate is certainly not successful.

Republicans who have been claiming to be fiscal conservatives, just voted with every single Democrat in the House of Representatives. That would be the equivalent of every Republican voting for Nancy Pelosi. That's what they did.

I have multiple combat tours as a Navy SEAL, including two to Afghanistan, and that is why I rise today in support of the amendment to use the Holman rule to reduce Secretary Austin's salary to $1. To paraphrase a famous British officer's…

I think that is, frankly, despicable.

Are you telling me that you are willing to move that to the right, your goal of 2030, 50 percent of all the fleet electrified, if it can help end child slavery?

I understand that the automated error rate is nearly 40 percent. Is that correct?

Do you commit to providing the RPO Report to the subcommittee by the end of this week?

I will have no part in subsidizing child slavery.

I want to continue to engage with you and your staff and the schools to make sure that we work this out appropriately.

Much of this legislation was passed under the leadership of my friend and colleague, Mr. Levin.

If the regulation is getting in the way of accomplishing a mission, then the regulation needs to be looked at.

By removing Title IV opportunities, then you are driving veterans to private loans. They are more expensive.

I believe this, Mr. Garcia, that your intentions are pure and your staff and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and I have a very good but somewhat complicated political relationship, as you do.

My concern with establishing quotas is this, if you say school access to do 10 of these risk-based surveys, they are doing 10, when in fact they may only have to do nine or they should be doing 11.

You guys did a whole bunch of work, compiled a whole bunch of stuff. You gave it to some people and they did not act on it.

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That is not nonsense. That is a fact.

I want to kind of return to a bit of the things that my great friend and colleague from the State of Minnesota was discussing with you, and that is the actual real effects of some of the Biden administration's policy.

People of good conscience won't stand for Africans to be treated in these subhuman, colonial ways.

So, what you are telling me is this, is that your office is putting your goal of 2030 above the welfare of those children, and you are encouraging and subsidizing child slavery.

This is such a weird feeling because I think we have actually moved the ball down the field today in Congress.

Do you believe the United States Government has a moral obligation to try to end child slavery?

It was really interesting, can you elaborate on your testimony in reference to faith-based schools and their issues with the 10/15 waivers for religious institutions?

Okay. I am going to ask you all real quick. Can we all agree or do you agree that there is the potential for, and more likely than not, fraud involved in this education system because of its size?