Minnesota has a good pilot going with some of our businesses, a community college in the northern suburbs, and then our high schools.

have you looked at this idea--Congressman Delaney has been working on this; we have a bill coming out of the Senate, a bi-partisan bill this week--about an Infrastructure Financing Authority?

Because that is what I have seen, too, as being a major--having a major role in our increase in manufacturing.

Indeed, in the Bates FISA Court decision in 2011, NSA had been violating its authority, right?

In fact, the opposite is true, that it is a tiny, tiny number.

this bill is very important, albeit only a first step.

There is no question that the American people need more information about these programs.

It is very important that the users of our services understand that we are stewards of their data, we hold it responsibly, we treat it with respect.

Senator Franken's bill would take important steps to increase the transparency of government requests for information.

If those had been required earlier, we would have found out 3 years earlier that Americans were unconstitutionally being surveilled and presumably would have put a stop to it.

But I am not having you----

I believe there needs to be more transparency.

what you do not know can hurt you.

But Americans are also naturally suspicious of executive power, and when the Government does things secretly, Americans tend to think that power is being abused.

This bill is urgently necessary. Americans understand that we need to give due weight to privacy, on the one hand, and national security, on the other.

We know those technologies.

I am proud of the work we did earlier this year to revamp federal student loans.

We now have the opportunity to build on this success and find the common ground necessary to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.