It seems to me that we're engaged in a discussion that is fundamentally meaningless because all we're doing is moving a significant margin p...
This is going backward, not forwards, even by the terms of the conversation we're having here.
We've just multiplied by six the population that's at risk of getting their insurance thrown off.
I'm all for getting rid of this artificial problem by going to a universal health care system.
To abandon accountability... is to accept the status quo of inequity in student outcomes.
Federal requirements, and the State bureaucracies that are necessary to help implement them, have far too significant a footprint.
What I'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives.
the most effective schools are driven primarily by teachers and school leaders.
I understand that there are lots of concerns--and I share those concerns--about making sure that the benefit of education is spread evenly a...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an intrusion on State and local Jim Crow laws.
the most effective schools are driven by their teachers and school leaders.
We owe our kids at least a system in which they have a meaningful and equitable opportunity to learn.
Each of you emphasized the need to use all instruments of national power, not just military power, but also diplomacy and economic power.
General Mattis emphasized the need to have a clear understanding of what our political objectives are in the region.
General Scowcroft and Dr. Brzezinski talked about the importance of the region but also warned against the United States, in their words, 'o...
This has been an extraordinarily useful hearing.
The current 75 parts per billion ozone standard has been too high since the day it was finalized by the Bush administration back in 2008.
I would also like to State for the record that the question about proceeding with this hearing after the adjournment of the Senate last nigh...
