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Mr. President, you have to read the whole paragraph. There is one where there is any change at all would disqualify a grandfather plan, and that is any increase in the percentage cost sharing. You can understand that. If you have a…

Mr. President, I will be glad to yield time if he will yield me time if I have a question.

Mr. President, can I ask how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 27 minutes on the Senator's side and 21 minutes on the other side.

Mr. President, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I have to say to my friend from Wyoming: Where did that come from-- 100 pages of regulations for every page that is in the bill? That is going to be 200,000 pages of regulations…

Mr. President, we have two things here. We have the Patients' Bill of Rights which just went into effect. That covers everybody. That covers all plans. That covers grandfathered plans. They can't escape that. However, if a plan wanted to…

That is the way I see it. It just seems that we have rules and regulations. What the Department has said is that, OK, to be a grandfathered plan, you have to fall under these items: You can only raise your copayment a certain amount. By…

How much time remains? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa has 17 minutes, and the Senator from Wyoming has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Absolutely. I made that very clear. The bill of rights that came into effect stays for everything. But what I am saying is that the Senator is right, and I responded that way concerning the bill of rights. But what doesn't apply to…

How much time does the other side have? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Three and a half minutes.

Mr. President, I yield 4, 5 minutes to the Senator from Illinois. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Illinois.

Let me repeat that: the taxpayers' investment is $24 billion a year.

Mr. President, how much time do we have? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Eleven minutes 12 seconds.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 2 p.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…

Frankly, it is hard to imagine that an educational relationship that begins with a school deliberately misleading and sometimes outright lying to the student could result in a meaningful degree or a positive outcome.

I look forward to working together to improve the outcomes of students attending Kaplan University including its five Iowa campuses.

I'm sure Mr. Davis is a good lawyer, and he represents the for-profit industry. Fine.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Rules and Administration be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I'm going to do it in the nature of our obligations as lawmakers here and representing both taxpayers and low-income students to make sure that they get value.