U.S. manufacturing employment has increased by 612,000 jobs since February 2010.

the President had proposed $56 billion in additional spending above the Murray-Ryan budget for 2015, and that was paid for with tax reforms and mandatory spending cuts.

Instead, find the political courage to put new revenue on the table to fund our national security priorities.

we did not cut a dime from IDEA. We didn't address special education.

Thank you, Chairman Harkin, for holding this hearing, for your leadership, and sponsoring the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.

we need to do better for our kids on the whole.

The charter school model began in 1991 when my home state of Minnesota passed legislation to create the nation's first charter schools.

I think that is a bad tendency to do that.

Congratulations again to both of you for your nomination, and thank you, Mr. Chairman.

the advances made in charter schools... have helped lift all those boats.

We cannot make these families wait any longer for the education their children need and deserve.

I am proud to say, no, Senator, not one time.

I cosponsored it along with probably a majority of the members of the 180-member House of the General Assembly in Georgia because it was important to the constituents that I represented.

I think there could clearly be public safety implications for these doctors if you put all this detailed information about them online.

I am faithful to the obligation to follow stare decisis, and I would follow Windsor and any other cases out of the Supreme Court, including Romer and Lawrence.

We want to thank you for your patience here with our rather interrupted proceeding here and there.

Could you commit to working with me and the GSA to address these concerns about what is happening here? Because it is kind of an outrage.

I have a specific concern... about the plans to move... the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service office in Minnesota...