I want to thank you, Senator Harkin, for your leadership in introducing a similar bill in the Senate this week.
My colleagues back home asked me to come here to deliver a strong message--please act now to approve additional Federal aid targeted to help...
Teachers are not the problem here. We are the solution.
the Federal Government is really giving with one hand and taking away with another because the new healthcare bill, between 2014 and 2019, i...
what we are really doing with this Federal takeover of the student loan program is borrowing money from 19 million students.
to support State and local efforts to help children learn what it means to be an American and finding a dedicated stream of funding for that...
We may hold the record open for a while here to have some written questions from Senators who were not able to be here because of schedule c...
I urge the Senate to support similar education jobs relief to save teachers and protect the futures of students.
The Senate needs to act quickly on an education jobs package.
My colleagues back home asked me to deliver a strong message--please act now to help avert the looming layoffs.
Leaving States to cut education more deeply--and we already are cut to the bone--without additional Federal aid is short-sighted.
I look at a jobs bill as an investment.
Let us work together. Let us find out. That doesn't sound--this shouldn't be. It should be higher.
This is a real crisis that we have.
I mean, from prevention we know what smoking leads to, and all the diseases it leads to, and the cost to society.
We have a real cliff problem right now.
we've got to make some pretty tough decisions, too.
I think the atmosphere is just right for this.
