That's bad for the students. It's bad for their families. It's bad for the economy in the near term and in the long term.

Mr. President, I would like to thank the Senator from Wyoming for yielding but, more importantly, for his leadership on the subject that brings us all to the floor. The National Labor Relations Board has gotten a lot of attention lately…

Young Americans have enormous amounts of enthusiasm and hope and energy about their own personal futures, about the country's future.

The degree you earn from Iowa will be the best tool you have to achieve that basic American promise.

A higher education is the single clearest path to the middle class.

We can't price the middle class out of a college education.

Now is not the time to double the interest rates on our student loans.

Helping more young people afford college should be at the forefront of America's agenda.

The American people expect their Government to enhance security without undermining their privacy and civil liberties.

This is absolutely about our economy.

It is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out Chapter 4 of Part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as…

This is about your job security. This is about your future.

College isn't just the best investment that you can make in your future, it's the best investment you can make in your country's future.

get Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.

Failing to take action would result in interest rates on these student loans doubling, which would in turn have a very negative impact on millions of students across the country.

Let us go to the recent tragedy in France where you had a young French citizen, a Muslim, who went to, I think, Pakistan to study at a madrassa there, came back to France and engaged in horrific acts of terrorism. Do you worry about that…

I could not agree more, but, you know, human beings being human beings, we all make mistakes.

The only reason I suggest that we need to maybe look at little harder is because we are lucky to have found out about this.