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Michael Farrand Bennet is a United States Senator from Colorado, serving since January 21, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Bennet has focused on a range of issues including education, healthcare, and economic policy throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for improving access to quality education and has worked on initiatives to reform the healthcare system to make it more affordable for Americans.
I agree with my colleague from Colorado. In an attempt to protect certain States with guaranteed funding levels, in 2006 Congress changed the Older Americans Act funding formula to ensure States received a guaranteed funding level based on…
In many of these State and local projects, the lion's share of the societal value and economic benefit generated actually accrues to the Federal Government budget.
I am so thankful for Chairman Hatch's and Senator Bennet's introduction of the Social Impact Partnership Act, S. 1089.
Thank you very much for holding this hearing, and thank you to the panel for your excellent testimony.
In October of last year, Senator Mikulski and I sponsored and the Senate passed a resolution that defined dyslexia as a, 'unexpected difficulty in reading, highlighted by a gap between the individual's intelligence and their reading level.'
It's already open season for hackers to steal money and data from hard-working Americans, so congressional inaction should not make the situation worse.
It is unacceptable for troves of taxpayer data to be more vulnerable to hacking than many social media or e-mail accounts.
This is probably the biggest retrenchment on a domestic policy issue that we've had in modern American history.
It's the only reason the Federal Government should have any involvement, it seems to me, in education.
I felt strongly about it. I offered an amendment to change it. It was defeated.
Thank you for your efforts in ensuring those accounts were strong in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016.
This GAO investigation has not uncovered one single shred of real-world fraud in the insurance marketplace.
Working-age Americans in Oregon and nationwide with preexisting conditions--80 million people or more--can no longer be denied insurance.
For the 160 million people who get their insurance from their employer, premiums climbed only 4 percent.
Because of the Affordable Care Act, the number of Americans without health insurance is at or near its lowest point in half a century.
On this side of the aisle, we do not take a back seat to anybody in fighting fraud and protecting taxpayer dollars--$1 ripped off is $1 too many.
Effective enforcement is not only an important aspect of domestic confidence-building, it is critical to ensure that we achieve the benefits that we negotiated for.
We need to provide the resources here in our government so that the agencies who want to do their job can do their job.
Several legislative proposals have been introduced to update the 1872 mining law, including S. 2275, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2015.
Earthworks applauds Senator Bennet and Senator Gardner for their work on the discussion draft this far.
As Senator Gardner said, the blowout at the Gold King was an environmental and economic disaster for communities throughout Southwest Colorado.
But it is also why Senator Gardner and I have come together, along with Representative Tipton, to release the draft Good Samaritan bill that the Committee will consider today.
This legislation would facilitate the cleanup of abandoned hardrock mines while creating tens of thousands of reclamation jobs across the West far into the future.
I think this bill represents the broadest coalition that there has ever been because of the urgent need that is out there.
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