Mr. President, I come to the floor today to voice my opposition to this budget. Since being elected to the Senate, I have always stressed the importance of responsibly addressing our country's fiscal challenges. We have had bipartisan…

Freight rail is really important in Minnesota.

My bill would have colleges and universities put the calculators on the pages of their websites where prospective students are likely to look, such as the financial aid or tuition and fees page.

I think we all agree--I think there is total agreement here--that we want to be able to get useful information into the hands of prospective students in a timely fashion, at the right time.

We want to have this net price calculator. This is so that kids, before they even apply, are not ruling out schools where they think they cannot pay for it, but my goodness, it turns out that maybe they could.

It seems like one of the issues, Ms. Barr, has been that Congress has been slow itself to update and to modernize Federal laws relating to government transparency, such as the Federal Records Act.

There was nothing improper, even unusual with Secretary Clinton selecting which e-mails to preserve.

Precision medicine is extremely exciting.

It's about healthcare, not sick care, and using personalized medicine should improve prevention.

There's no question that precision medicine can bring down our costs, and, certainly, as I just don't--I worry about a brave new world where certain people have access to certain things.

This is exciting, because there's really been a paradigm shift in the way we think of healthcare in this country.

I feel confident in the future of precision medicine with you three at the helm.

I'm very glad you held this hearing, and I'm hopeful that we are going to come up with some solution here.

the uncertainty that is created by not knowing whether or not we are going to have a continual Highway Trust Fund is exacerbated when you have a shorter construction season.

Mr. President, I rise today in strong support of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act that is before the Senate today. I thank Senator Corker and Senator Cardin for their incredible work bringing people together on the Foreign Relations…

The Non-Profit Energy Efficiency Act provides assistance to nonprofit organizations to help them make their buildings more energy efficient.

The two of us were also excited to be part of the Shaheen/Portman Energy Efficiency bill that passed at the end.

If we adopt a similar standard at the Federal level we would unleash the manufacturing and deployment of all kinds of energy efficient products throughout the economy.