Mike Enzi

Actions speak louder than words.

I, as a taxpayer, call upon you, Senator Enzi to pay attention, find them, and fix them!

Trust me, for 2 years I reported this gross deficiency to everyone who would listen, and there were many, like you Senator Enzi, who did not.

Senator Enzi, I trust that you have asked these questions honestly and in that same sense of respect and decency.

Neither my intent nor my participation thus far should be fairly characterized as uncooperative.

If you're getting over 90 percent of your money from the taxpayers, it seems to me the taxpayers have a right to know the data and the information about what's happening to those students, what their debt loads are, what is happening to…

Let's get to work solving that problem, Mr. Chairman.

So again, I agree with my friend from Wyoming that it is about access to poor kids, but access to what? A quality education or a lifetime of debt, without a diploma or without a degree?

In my 14 years, I haven't been through a series of hearings that have been this one-sided.

According to the NBCC, the Department's proposed Gainful Employment Rule, will lead to 400,000 students leaving postsecondary education, it will lead to a 15 percent reduction in lifetime salary for those students, it will eliminate 90,000…

I agree there is clearly a problem in higher education.

For-profit colleges have made the Federal Government their primary free-money spigot.

I do stand ready to work with the chair on solutions to the problems facing our Nation's students and higher education.

These numbers are staggering and not something the committee should ignore, especially in a down economy.

If a large company like this can't even provide an accurate list of their students, what is going on?

In 1991--and I spoke with him on the phone recently--Senator Sam Nunn had an investigation into this same thing.

Over the past 15 years, wages of young college graduates ages 25 to 34 have basically remained stagnant, while tuition and fees at public and private 4-year colleges have risen dramatically.

For-profit colleges account for only 10 percent of students enrolled in higher education, but those students receive 23 percent of Federal student loans and grants.

I am disappointed that was called off. It was not called off by my staff. I think we could have had a bipartisan bill that would wind up unanimous on this side like the last one, with only a few objections on the House side. So I am…

I have seen some articles appearing in different parts of the United States that are inaccurate on what is happening on mine safety, and so I wish to take a moment to clear up some of that confusion that has been caused by a breakdown in…

I voted against the Higher Education Opportunity Act, the 2007 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, because I believe that it produces too many unnecessary and onerous regulations and didn't improve the Federal Government's…

As indicated in response to Senator Enzi's question #2, accrediting agencies for example require annual reporting

I believe, and I think where we're headed, is very clear cut legislation that can't be overturned by another administration.

Thank you. And Mr. Chairman, I thank you for letting me go first so that I can make it to the White House.

What role do the incentive compensation safe harbors play in encouraging the behavior revealed in that GAO investigation?