I join Chairman Rokita in commending this committee and this Congress in rewriting the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA.

Many of the Republican school choice proposals that have been presented before us offer false choices that could only exacerbate educational inequities.

As co-chair of the congressional lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality caucus, I have concerns about the rights of our gay and lesbian students in voucher programs.

The U.N. has really become a forum for anti-Israel activism and ganging up, in effect, on the world's only Jewish State.

Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle would do well to stop patting themselves on the back for and take credit for voters putting them in the majority rather than the cartographers and map drawers who did a really good job of…

Legislators choose their voters.

And would not you say that generally taking a balanced approach which is what Democrats have promoted over the last 8 years to responsible spending cuts and generating revenue is the most responsible way to address deficits over a period…

Please spare us the political advice.

With the Budget Control Act of 2011 and sequestration, we continue to see dramatic cuts in nondefense discretionary spending, dramatic cuts.

So what kind of notifications is the IT security team required to make before deploying these tools, and what is the purpose of the notifications?

What has been done to mitigate the potential damage to people whose files were compromised?

But this was so--the implication is there may have been a problem prebreach?

I mean, I think that we in this committee--and I applaud the chairman for being on this issue.

If we can really tackle pharmaceutical costs that would be a great help for families.

We are going to move forward in a bipartisan way to give them help.

Mr. President, today I want to recognize Adele Griffin, a longtime Senate staffer in my Jacksonville office, for her years of hard work; for me, my staff, and the people of the State of Florida. A fifth-generation Floridian, Adele…

The ACA also requires health insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of their premium dollars on actual health care.

Patients are tired of waiting for relief.