I personally am very optimistic about the new organization.

steps to provide some space between are needed to even the playing field.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak on the National Defense Authorization Act and how the Senate, and particularly the women of the Senate, are working to address the crisis of military sexual assault. I thank Senators Mikulski and…

One would be to strengthen the Federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

I have yet to be convinced that building hospitals is one of them.

We are prohibited from telling high schools what they ought to teach.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in hopes we can craft smart, bipartisan proposals to strengthen career and technical education in America.

There is broad, bipartisan agreement about the value of CTE programs.

This innovation should be expanded to provide more students access to higher-quality, better-coordinated CTE.

We are going to enforce it.

I am discouraged by this morning's news--leaked news--that President Obama plans to announce a new national competitive grant program aimed at career education without any input from Congress.

I have got jobs. I don't have anybody who can fill it.

We have to write policy here mindful of all these things.

I visited a manufacturer in my district that makes parts of satellites that are used by the military and intelligence agencies and some commercial, and he had seven job openings for machinists--would pay $50,000 or $55,000 a year with full…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time and for his incredible leadership on this issue. Dr. Burgess has been championing real solutions for over 10 years. Mr. Speaker, 140,000; that is the number of people from my home State of Minnesota…

And we still have a long-term unemployment problem. So many of those adults that we're talking about could actually find a way into a job if they knew that a community and technical college could provide that path.

I can applaud community college system leadership that are actually trying to make community college an even more affordable path than what we've described today.

Since former Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared we had to pass the president's health care plan to learn what was in it, we continue to discover disturbing details.