The only thing whistleblowers are guilty of is committing truth.

Many of us in the Senate have worked hard in years to pass legislation to help restore competition in livestock markets.

He has been around agriculture in the family farm, as mayor of a small town, as a State senator, and as Governor of Iowa.

I am so pleased to see that one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominations is an Iowan, and I want to personally congratulate you.

Thank you very much.

That would be like saying to any minority group 30 percent of you just don't count.

One of the results of No Child Left Behind... is that... the first teachers to go... is usually the art teacher or the music teacher or the phys ed teacher.

The President-elect views education as both a moral obligation and an economic imperative.

I believe that education is a key factor in securing a sound economic future for our country.

Confirming the President's nominees is one of the most important constitutional duties of the Senate.

We have it in Iowa and a few other States, and we have been funding it. All of the indications are that it has been a great success.

We have to build on the successes of No Child Left Behind.

Education has been a bipartisan issue, and we need to keep it that way.

Congress and the Department of Education need to work together to make sure that every school has the tools and the flexibility needed.

Quality education is also the civil rights issue of our generation.

Can you give us some specificity as to how we can make college opportunity more affordable for the young people of America so that more of them can go to college and so that more of them will not leave college with these very oppressive…

There is no magic bullet anywhere along the line.

How we progress as a country and how we are going to maintain our standard of living, our way of life, and provide for equality of opportunity for all our kids really comes down to what kind of education system we have.