We need to have a reciprocity concept at the time that we produce this legislation, because the rest of the world is looking to us for whether we will live by our rules when the shoe is on the other foot.

For the problems that you have all mentioned, it is time for Congress, like I said, to pick a horse and ride it and let us pass some legislation to fix this problem.

The American people need to have a notice of what their rights are, and likely, in most cases, a notice of the taking of their information.

Let me be clear: House Democrats would never have supported, and the President of the United States would have never signed, a law that revoked rulemaking authority or set a dangerous precedent when it comes to the federal government's…

I strongly believe the Federal Government is responsible for providing educational equity and strong guardrails to protect the civil rights of all students.

I am glad this committee is continuing its work to make sure that the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act delivers on the goal of Congress in providing State and local education agencies with the flexibility and the resources…

I am confident that the Every Student Succeeds Act will uphold the civil rights legacy of the original ESEA and be responsive to the needs of students in each community.

We need to start looking at assessments as a positive tool to help inform instruction.

I think make great progress in developing the trauma-informed practices, which I am hopeful are going to be able to reduce suspension and expulsion that we are seeing in early education and child care.

It bears repeating that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is really a civil rights law.

One of the most frequently criticized pieces of No Child Left Behind that I have heard about over the years is the high-stakes testing.

At the end of the day, in the absence of congressional action, at least as it relates to the specific circumstance that I laid out, is it fair to say that we could put a United States company in the position of providing email content…

Congress, in light of the silence that you have acknowledged at least as it relates to the Stored Communications Act, should step into the void to clarify the situation for all parties involved?

Compelling United States companies to violate, potentially as you have acknowledged, United States law by disclosing email content of non-U.S. citizens could possibly place United States businesses at a competitive disadvantage.

Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, 74 years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. That order led to the mass internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. Executive Order 9066 is an example of what can happen when a government acts out of…

Mr. President, our Republican colleagues have decided that the Senate should not hold a hearing or vote on any Supreme Court nominee this year. The reason? It is an election year. That is a breathtakingly candid but utterly irresponsible…

We have to get this right, and this is a very specialized area of the law.