Thank you all for coming today. And we hope to have a good discussion here for the next hour and 25 minutes.

I think online learning opens up a whole world to our students that many of them don't have access to.

I don't know exactly how we work our way out of that.

our schools need both.

I certainly didn't like that idea when I was going to school.

Mr. President, today I am introducing two bills, S. 3746 and S. 3759, making improvements to the operation of the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program. The first makes a number of changes that will ease the administration of the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 3759 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 3759 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Automatic IRA Act of 2010. When fully phased in, this bill will give nearly 42 million Americans nationwide an easy, effective way to take responsibility for their financial futures and plan for…

Mr. President, I rise today in honor of the 90th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote on August 26, 1920, and to acknowledge the celebration of this anniversary by the community of Las Cruces, NM. The struggle for the right to…

Mr. President, today, I join Senators Bingaman, Bennet of Colorado, and Udall, in submitting a resolution to recognize the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad on its 40th anniversary this August. Representative Lujan, a member of the New…

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about Solicitor General Kagan's experience. Over the past few months, there has been a lot of talk from our friends across the aisle about whether Ms. Kagan is qualified to be our country's 112th Supreme…

Mr. President, let me first just commend all my colleagues for their eloquent statements in support of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination, and I join them in that support of her nomination to be an Associate Justice of the U.S…

Mr. President, I yield myself 5 minutes off the Democratic time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a business meeting has been scheduled before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The business meeting will be held on Thursday, August…

Thank you, Chairman Klobuchar, for calling this hearing into an issue that is of great concern to families in New Mexico and around the country.

Federal toxic chemical regulation is broken and needs to be addressed.

If we do not, our children and our grandchildren will continue to be guinea pigs in an uncontrolled experiment testing the impacts of thousands of industrial chemicals on the human body.