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Mr. President, it is always a pleasure to spend these late afternoons--sometimes Thursday afternoons--when the current Presiding Officer gets stuck presiding, when I come to the floor to talk, yet again, about funding--paying for--these…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Transportation Authorization bill
Mr. President, I rise today to shine a spotlight on apprentices, one of our Nation's oldest forms of education and still one of the smartest investments we can make as a nation. The week we are in the middle of right now--this very…
Mr. President, I want to thank the Senator for inviting us to come to the floor this afternoon and have this conversation. It is great to be with our colleague from Hawaii as well. Senator Durbin and I came to the House of Representatives…
We focused on raising student achievement, thought it was the most important thing that we did.
There is a loophole that allows some of them to get up to 100 percent.
These pop-up schools... I believe they are overstated.
Some of them are not. They are diploma mills. They are preparing students for jobs that do not exist.
Thanks for holding the hearing today, and to our witnesses, three of my favorite people are lined up here before us.
Today, veterans coming back from Afghanistan, if they served 3 years in our military, they can go to school--they can go to Rutgers free, tuition paid for, everything is paid.
I do not want us to be precipitous about putting limits on the ability to recruit great schools.
I love competition, and it has been engendered by public school choice and charter schools.
The greatest predictor of kids doing well in school is the expectation of their parents.
Mr. President, in recent weeks I have spoken three or four or five times on the question of whether we are going to realistically and honestly fund the transportation improvements our country so badly needs. I don't know if it is my…
Mr. President, I want to go back in time a little more than 12, 13 or 14 years ago, to 9/11. One of the lessons learned by the committee on which the Presiding Officer and I serve, now the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs…
Mr. President, it is with great pleasure that I speak on behalf of the Delaware delegation to honor Head Start's 50 years of service to our Nation's most vulnerable children and families in Delaware and nationwide. On May 18, 1965…