Michael Bennet

If we do not figure out how to educate our kids better, and if we do not figure out how to recouple job growth and wage growth to economic growth, we are not going to recognize ourselves in the middle of the 21st century, and this is what…

As we sit here today, we face income inequality that is greater than it has been since 1928 in this country.

If we do not change what we are doing as a country, the gap is only going to get a lot worse.

What is embedded here is really a fight between the future and the past.

I just do not believe it is appropriate for this committee or for the United States Senate to take action until the bipartisan investigation... is completed.

Senator Murkowski puts it very eloquently. She says it is time to apply the 'even Steven' rule: the same thing that you do for the NRA is what you do for the Sierra Club.

I do not think we need to get tangled up on all that.

My hope for you and for all of us is that this committee can become the model of bipartisanship that this Senate and this Congress needs.

We cannot have a tax code that was designed to deal with the challenges of either 1960 or 1980.

As far as I'm concerned, every one of these Federal dollars could be well-spent on early childhood education.

I thank my friend from Oklahoma for yielding. I wish to speak about the farm bill which, thanks to months and months and actually years of tireless work by Chairwoman Stabenow, Ranking Member Cochran, and other conferees on the bill…

It is also a privilege to introduce Noah Mamet, the President's nominee to serve as the Ambassador to the Argentine Republic.

We applaud Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall for their efforts, as well as Representative Scott Tipton.

We specifically want to thank U.S. Senator Michael Bennet for their leadership in crafting these bills.

This bill represents a community-driven process through and through, Republicans, Democrats and Independents working together to cement a long-term plan for the community's future.

It's nice to see a committee actually doing its work in the U.S. Congress.

I'm proud to report the bill has the unanimous bipartisan backing of the two county commissions involved, San Juan and La Plata Counties in Colorado.

It demonstrates the fundamental bipartisanship of this bill.

And I think it would be a worthy project for this committee if we were able to actually get rid of that document.

I think one part of the rating system is going to have to take into account peer institutions with similar amounts of resources and student backgrounds to have some sense of what is possible, given there are multiple challenges those…

If you grow up in our State and you're low-income, you can go to community college for free.

So there's another great consensus--one loan, one grant, one tax credit, but redesigned for the 21st century.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:12 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, November 5, 2013, at 10 a.m…

I understand the Chair is ready to announce the conferees for H.R. 3080, the water resources bill. The Presiding Officer appointed Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Carper, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Barrasso…

I hope, as we go forward, that we don't lose sight of the fact that government does not do a great job with procurement, with IT, or with customer service.