I support the direction the Administration is taking us, and continue to believe that Congress should enact baseline privacy legislation.

Would you also agree with me that when the President said, 'because I am capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit…

these costs will be passed on to the consumers?

trillions of dollars that will be passed on to the consumers, which will disproportionately hurt the working class, the poor, the middle class, and the elderly.

But if we put such huge pressures on American industries that they take their jobs to these other parts of the world, wouldn't you agree with me that intuitively, we are actually making the problem worse and that what we ought to be…

we are trying to slow the train wreck down somehow.

My experience also coming from coal country is is that coal is under assault and that it is driving up electric prices just as Candidate Obama had promised.

this program retains its viability

That is why we introduced the GI Bill Educational Freedom Act, along with Senator Mark Rubio and four other Senator colleagues from both sides of the aisle.

Risk is an everyday feature of our financial system.

And the new GI Bill is making a real difference for thousands of veterans and their families each and every year.

the same quality benefits that were given to those who served during World War II should have been the standard

That is why I am so outraged to hear some of the actions of the bad actors in the education community.

we were able to move this bill through the Senate and through the House in sort of a record 16 months

the finest GI Bill in the history of our country

It is a comprehensive, commonsense piece of legislation, and I am confident we can put this together on a bipartisan basis in order to save the integrity and the value of the best GI Bill that our country has ever seen.

As a Senator, I have never forgotten what mattered all those years, that my country was willing to invest in me when I returned home from my military service.

This episode demonstrates an extraordinary failure of risk management.