Michael Bennet

Sometimes we can actually move beyond rhetoric and accomplish something in a bipartisan way that has meaningful results.

It's also the case that NCLB has allowed us to look into high performing schools that have subpopulations of students that were being left behind.

I will say to Senator Burr's point that I am unaware of a connection between title II and student achievement in this country.

I congratulate the Presiding Officer, and I also congratulate Chairman Hatch for the unanimous vote he got in today's markup in the Finance Committee. It was a great bipartisan start to our work, as he said. I hope we will continue to have…

For the first time, poor children will be the majority of public school children in America.

I think we need to do things to elevate the status of teachers.

If this country really wanted to attract the best folks in their college class to teaching, what would we do?

The likelihood was that you'd get the best British literature student in her class to be a teacher, but that likelihood is gone.

It is time for us to do it, because the stakes are really high.

I have no idea who the CEO is, but I like your chances, Senator Mikulski.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And thank you very much for holding this hearing.

It's a national embarrassment.

Investments in early childhood education pay big dividends

Technology has made that more possible than ever before.

I read last week... that for the first time in the country's history, a majority of our public school children in this country are poor enough that they qualify for free and reduced lunch.

The Senator is correct that there are more moving parts to a competency education system than I gave in my testimony.

I've often said that if we had a rally to keep No Child Left Behind the same on the Capitol steps, there's not a single person in the country that would come to that. We are 8 years overdue. We are long overdue.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:55 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, December 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m.

For the information of all Senators, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to concur on the Defense authorization bill at 10:30 a.m. ____________________

If you happen to be in the winning category, you happen to be an incumbent interest that earned something deep in the last century in our regulatory code, our tax code, that is great for you, but it is not great for innovation in this…

On this topic, like many others, I think that Washington would do well to learn a lesson from how we work together in Colorado.

Thank you. Mr. Whitlatch, you were kind enough to mention the bill that I have with Senator Burr...

I think cost is a big issue.

The proposal we support, promoted by Senators Bennet and Burr, would change the excise tax on LNG.

If the Congress wants to accelerate the adoption of alternative fuels, fuels like LNG, increase the use of domestic natural gas to enhance our energy security, and clean the air, then we must start with just fixing the LNG glitch in the…