Bob Wise: “If I could add to that, ``If you're not rich, don't play,'' that, ``If you're very poor, you'll have to pay.''”

Before we go home from this hearing today, the human capital market will have dropped 7,000; 7,000 kids will have dropped out of high school before we go home.

I support parental notification, I support the West Virginia statute which requires parental notification except in very limited circumstances... I happen to believe that the case cited, the Joyce Farley case, by the proponents of this…

But I have to point out, the enormous costs of restructuring the financial institutions, the banks, the auto industry, even AIG, total all of those up, it is still less than the combined cost of 5 years of dropouts in this country.

I believe that the greatest responsibility that a Member of Congress can face is the question of whether or not to go to war, to commit men and women of this country to armed conflict