Michael Bennet

The CDC director has called it a nightmare bacteria.

I suspect some of this is because we have a compliance-driven regulatory system.

This is cruel to put people through this when we don't need to put people through this.

I hope that we are using it to inform our work going forward.

For once, we have a committee that actually works in order.

It's a remarkably good report. You did exactly what we asked.

Senator Murray and I will discuss how to develop a bipartisan process to take full advantage of the recommendations in this report.

Pell Grants cover roughly 22 percent of what it costs to attend college.

This is a blueprint for the future.

The groups with an interest in the existing tax system were well-organized and ready to defend their tax breaks at a moment's notice.

The conventional wisdom in Washington held that tax reform was destined to lose.

Tax reform proposed something very different--a radical revamping of the entire tax structure.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I surprised the chairman because I finished early.

Do you have any--and, Dr. Sawyer, you train pediatricians.

Just to be clear to anybody listening to this, these are all things that are scientifically demonstrably incorrect.

I want to call your attention, Mr. Secretary, to a bill that Senator Alexander and I have that would reduce the questions on the financial aid form, the FAFSA form, from 108 questions to 2 questions.

I have offered to both the chairman and to Senator Wyden that we look forward to working with the bipartisan working groups.

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, described our tax code as broken and ridiculous.

I visualize the conflict in advance and then, when it comes, I know it is going to be there, and we can get through it.

I think the answer of what we have to do--we learned in 1986 what the answer on tax reform is.

With 60 of us in the Senate, in that bipartisan letter Senator Graham and I led, saying we want currency addressed in any trade agreement, I hope you understand that we are very serious about this.

Unfortunately, I've seen some plans in Colorado with deductibles as high as $6000 for an individual, and $12,000 for a family.

This is about keeping American jobs here and American innovation here and driving an economy that is actually lifting the middle class.

We ought to be doing more of that as we think about what we are doing going forward.

I think we ought to do more to encourage the development of life-saving therapies and ensure that they come to market.