Mr. O'Carroll, thank you for your incredible service to your country and the responsible job that you are doing.
Social Security is an insurance problem.
This is about supporting plans to create the climates and atmospheres in schools to make sure that those situations neve...
This conversation about accountability that, of course, I think is incredibly important is not a conversation just about...
No teacher ever wants to engage in that kind of practice.
I don't think we understand how deep and broad this problem is, and I'll take ownership of it in Connecticut.
I think there's a very important and appropriate role for the Department of Education to play in setting the guardrails ...
without some Federal requirement that kids of color or poor kids or disabled kids be treated fairly, local political dyn...
We included language in this bill, bipartisan language, that would require State plans to address the use of what the bi...
it's been at the foundation of our Federal commitment to civil rights and at the foundation of our Federal education law...
the Federal Government is in the business of education policy because we're in the business of civil rights.
I look forward in these next several months to doing exactly that.
It will require national commitment, sustained support, and resources over multiple decades.
We must protect the rights of consumers.
If there is a form of consumer complaint that is common and passionate among the people of Connecticut, it is unwanted c...
For a Congress that has done so little, to now do something so bad as to dilute the consumer protection laws would be ab...
We are doing a grave disservice to the people of America, and they want stronger measures.
There's no question in my mind that the present law needs to be updated and upgraded.