mr. kline: mr. chairman, the house is not in order. the chair: the committee will be in order. please remove your onversations from the floor. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. kline: mr. chairman, i rise today in strong support of the advancey comp tensey-based education demonstration project act of 2013, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. kline: mr. chairman, this week -- this week congress is moving forward -- the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the floor. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. kline: thank you, mr. chairman. this week congress is moving forward with a bipartisan effort to strengthen our nation's higher education system. across the country millions of college students are getting ready to start the school year. they will soon say goodbye to family and friends and pursue their dream of a postsecondary education. unfortunately, m

i again want to thank mr. kline and all the hard working folks on education and work force, the members and especially the women and men of the staff. the upstate of south carolina, mr. chairman, is home to several higher education institutions, public and private, large and small. and the issue of education affordability is front and center. and frankly, mr. chairman, families are struggling, try be to be able to plan for their kids' future. and i know that both because i have the benefit of representing these families and i hear from them and i also know it, mr. chairman, i have a 17-year-old daughter and while she's blessed in many ways compared to her contemporaries, lots and lots of her friends come to the house from time to time and, you know, we preach to people that the road to prosperity is paved with hard work and education. but when that road is riddled with pot holes called unsustainable debt, i don't know how we can expect them to get to the end. you figure out what the cost of education is, and many of

mr. kline: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 4984. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. kline: pursuant to house resolution -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 4984. the chair appoints the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. black, to preside over the ommittee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 4984 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to amend the loan counseling requirements under the hire education act of 1965 and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the first time. the gentleman from minnesota, mr. kline, and the gentlewoman from oregon, ms. bonamici, each will control 30 minutes. the chair

mr. kline: thank you, mr. speaker. i now yield a minute to the chair of the subcommittee on work force protections, the gentleman from michigan, mr. walberg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. walberg: i thank the chairman. mr. speaker, i rise in support of the work force innovation and opportunity act. a bill born out of the substantial efforts of chairman kleine, congresswoman foxx, and the house education and work force committee to help the unemployed train themselves for good paying jobs. in my michigan district there are hardworking individuals, businesses, and colleges committeed to reinventing the state's work force programs. but we need to provide the tools to support their efforts. this bicameral compromise replaces the confusing maze of work force programs. it also provides funds to state and local organizations to partner with local employers to highlight emerging career opportunities. most importantly, this legislation will provide the necessary training,

mr. kline: thank you, mr. speaker. this proposal for a hypothetical refinancing interest rate would make financial understanding even more confusing. we've been working on a process here to make it easier for students and parents to understand their loans and grants and work study programs. this would not be helpful. this motion, like all motions to recommit, affords the minority an opportunity to speak for five minutes to try to make political points before a procedural vote. that's done. let's take the vote. vote no on this and yes on the underlying bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. tierney: ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a r

miller, mr. kline for aspects of this legislation. but i remember, mr. speaker, walking the streets of houston with covenant house and finding in cub by holes homeless children. homeless teens. many of them had aged out and many of them had, in that time, when the language wasn't clear, had been prostituted, they were being sex trafficked, no one was happened -- no one was helping. i'm excited about legislation that recognizes that this act of ignoring them is child abuse and that we need to ensure they are not criminals and that the child welfare system understands their need. i was the first to bring to houston a homeland security hearing on human and sex trafficking. it was an emotional hearing. the stories of those being told through law enforcement, those who have trafficked as children, whose lives were ruined, would be the kind that would raise the hair on your head. i support all these human trafficking initiatives, particularly as they take criminal way from the justice system and i look more forward to understanding this through the internation

mr. kline. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. ryan, for being here. it was a pleasure to meet you and work with you when we were doing reauthorization, and as you know, i think that the center just does amazing and almost unimaginable, unimaginably difficult and challenging work. so we thank you for that. i'm looking at a couple of things here. i've got a, i think probably provided by your office, a nice little chart talking about the national center's statistics for minnesota, and looking at statistics since 1990 in minnesota, alone, nicmec worked on 1,699 endangered runaways. family abductions. 67 loss, injured, or otherwise missing and so forth. that's one state. and not that big a state where you're working all the time. and doing, as i said, unimaginably challenging and difficult work. speaking of minnesota, in minneapolis we have a little company there called life touch. it's a school portraits company. you've arranged to work with them to help law enforcement and the media. how did that come about, and how does that work? >> life touch actually

mr. miller. thank you, chairman kline. thank you, mrs. speaker. this has been a long time coming. i think it is worth waiting for, because this bill is forward looking, it is innovative, and it does much more to tie or federal workforce investment to local and regional employers which can customize the needs that they have for community colleges, with vocational schools, local high schools to develop the workforce that they need in their region, in their state. and that's a very exciting proposal to see that kind of connection put forth in this legislation. again, i want to thank everyone who worked on this, republicans and democrats in the senate. also, there is a remarkable number of staff hours in bringing this bill to the point where we're sending it to the president's desk. i want to thank the remarkable staff on both sides of the aisle and our committee for the time they put into this. ith that i would like to recognize representative virginia foxx. you won't often hear me say "amen" to something george miller says, but this time i want to say amen because i think his commen

mr. speaker. i rise in support of this legislation which will provide prospective students with better information to make more informed choices about pursuing their higher education. i want to commend chairman kline and subcommittee chairwoman foxx for bringing this measure forward. i want to thank my colleague, the gentleman from texas, mr. hinojosa, for his leadership on this topic as well. in modern life, few decisions are bigger than whether to attend college, and which college to attend. the right choice can be a head start towards a strong financial future. the wrong choice can leave a student without a degree and tens of thousands of dollars in debt. there is no magic formula for finding the best fit, but having access to clear and relevant data can make the decision easier and less overwhelming. unfortunately, when making this important choice, students and their families are often faced with a convoluted maze of statistics which don't allow them to fully -- to make fully informed cost conscious decisions. . this lenlslangesslation will ensure that students -- legislation will ensure that students have the information they need to make good decisions for their future. helping students mor

mrs. clinton's book has been bumped from its new york times best seller spot by a book from one of her harshest critics. we have more from the west coast bureau, trace? >> that's edward kline and new york times magazine, compared to bob woodward of the post, and the critics on left and right long accused him of being heavy on block buster accusations and very thin on sourcing. his new book "blood feud" describes the relationship between the clintons and obamas, which if you believe him, make the hatfields and mccoys seem lovy dovy. the details of the back that there was a physical altercation in the white house, and refers to hill larry as hildebeast and said i hate that man, obama, more than any man i ever met, more than any man that ever lived. they claim there's marital tension and the president prefers to fly separately to vacations so he doesn't have to deal with her. hillary clinton's camp told the new york times quoting, let's strap ed cline to a polygraph machine and let the needle do the talking. ed said this on the fox business network. listen. >> they have gone crazy. the clintons have gone crazy because my book has knocked her book off the top of the new york t