Michael Bennet

The Every Student Succeeds Act rightly shifts the locus of decisionmaking back to States and districts.

The reality of Washington, DC, is divorced from the reality of our schools, students and educators.

Senator Bennet asks an excellent question.

The whole enterprise has been dead in the cradle, and I would really like to see that revived.

A failing school is like a school on fire. You don't run the firefighting through a bureaucracy in Washington.

I want to see curriculum expanded. It contracted because of the testing requirements.

I would trade everything, all the other policies we talk about, all the other government--what we do in our tax code, everything, if I knew that every poor kid in America had a shot at great early childhood education.

I would like to commend you and Senator Ayotte for your leadership and the Senate's efforts to support our Nation's family caregivers.

Our bill would create a national framework of world-class providers and hospitals in the Medicaid program that would coordinate care across State lines on behalf of these children.

Senator Grassley and I, along with Senators Nelson, Brown, and Portman, introduced the ACE Kids Act.

I'm looking forward to working on a bipartisan basis with my colleagues in Congress to pursue those issues.

It is disappointing that some other committees this year are not exercising this same responsibility.

We are going to have to work towards the politics that permit the kind of civil debate to deal with these issues on a bipartisan basis.

The time has come for us to actually get this work done.

We have to be realistic about what the mix of revenue and spending is.

If you tax people into poverty, you cannot then complain that people are not becoming part of the workforce.

The intent of Congress was for Treasury and the IRS to expeditiously implement this provision.

If you have a tax that is taxing people into poverty, it is not a good tax.

I have asked Treasury and the Fed for details about plans the agencies had to handle debt default.

We have to fill that space. I think the budget agreement at the end of last year gives us a period of time where we can make progress there.

The Earned Income Tax Credit was created in a Republican administration.

I recommend and support any efforts to clearly define, require, and enforce the application of parity laws.

In Baltimore City, we have developed a comprehensive overdose strategy that is based on the philosophy that every interaction with a person with substance addiction must be treated as an entry point for intervention and treatment.

I think it has established a standard for bipartisan work in the Senate that I hope the rest of the committees will be able to live up to.

I would ask that you continue to work with me on this issue as I continue to pursue a legislative solution.