"FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year."
"We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college."
"I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs."
"We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt."
"However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have."
"Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce."
"Federal education spending should support States in policies that afford the greatest opportunity for kids to learn and achieve academically."
"Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money."
"This Administration's student debt cancellation programs undermine these programs and force hard-working taxpayers to shoulder the cost."
"Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?"
"NIH is not just great biomedical research institution, it's also a driver of economic growth."