But if you want high-quality early childhood, especially in that early birth-to-3, and you want really good daycare, and you want qualified people with those kids, and you want good home visits and parental involvement and making sure kids…

Senator Harkin's bill also puts an emphasis on pre-K programs, including nutrition services and education, physical activity, and obesity prevention programs.

We provided over a $1 billion increase for Head Start, $1 billion, and a $150 million increase for child care.

We serve fewer than 1 in 20 infants and toddlers that are eligible for Early Head Start.

Thank you, Senator Harkin. Thank you for this opportunity, and I thank you for your work related to early childhood.

All children, regardless of circumstances, deserve access to high-quality education that will nurture that potential.

We are well short of meeting existing needs.

I have been advocating for early childhood education for a long time.

Head Start is our Nation's premier provider of developmental and educational services to pregnant moms, infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families, who live in poverty and struggle to meet the basic needs of life.

I thank the Senator from New York. The Defense Department has been promising Congress and the American people for a long period of time that they are working on this problem of sexual assault, and we are still looking for results, and the…

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Earlier today a vote was taken in the Senate that, to this Senator, marked about the lowest point that I think this Senate has descended in my 30 years here. I don't say that lightly. I was in Congress during the impeachment process trial…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The bill clerk called the roll.

I ask unanimous consent that the time spent in quorum calls this morning be divided equally between the two sides. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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