We end up spending $50,000 a year keeping them in jail rather than investing in education, rather than investing in childcare.
I am certainly going to very strongly support your nomination, and I look forward to working with you.
Millions of young people will leave school $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 in debt.
Well, thank you very much for that, I think, excellent answer.
We have a crisis in terms of the affordability and access to college in America today.
The Federal Government can play an extraordinary leadership role in moving toward energy efficiency.
It would be a good idea to have some laboratory in a climate where the weather gets 20 below 0.
I think in front of us we have somebody who has the makings to be a great Secretary of Labor.
Today, if an employee is engaged in a union-organizing campaign, that employee has a one-in-five chance of getting fired.
We recognize the central challenges that we are facing.
We want someone that's going to be fair, obviously, for the workers and for all of those affected by your department.
I think we have the opportunity here to vote for somebody who will be one of the great Secretaries of Labor.
Only 8 percent have them and 60 percent want a union.
I voted against it, too. And in retrospect, it was the right vote, because, among other things, it allowed employers to discriminate against...
Medicare Part D... is extraordinarily confusing.
I am concerned that the same people on Wall Street who were part of the problem are still in office.
At a time when the taxpayers of this country are providing hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street.
we are going to break them up
