Michael Bennet

I'd like to thank the panel and thank you Mr. Chairman for letting me go over.

We should hold those wrongdoers accountable, and then determine what needs to be done to prevent this kind of exploitative behavior from recurring.

How many have been put on probation over the last 2 years?

It seems to me it's in everybody's interests, the students, the schools, the taxpayers certainly, that people have access to this kind of information.

To what extent can some of the issues that he's raising be solved through better public disclosure?

Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Pruyn I want to start with you by first saying thank you for coming all this way from Colorado for this testimony and for your courage in speaking out.

And this is out of a total of how many?

It would help, but I don't think it would fix the problem.

Do you think they're resourced adequately to do that?

We need institutions that bring students who have historically been left out of higher education into the fold.

Was the figure I heard. Six to ten?

I want to hear your honest thought about it.

One of the challenges, I think, that we are going to face, and that the DOE is going to face is that it's so difficult to monitor every individual transaction that occurs.

I also rise today in support of Bill Martinez's nomination to serve on the Federal district court in Colorado. Before I talk about that, I wish to take a moment to address this small business bill that is before the Senate because people…

I rise today to urge this body to get our priorities straight. During this trying moment for struggling families all over America, as we work to get our economic ship righted, it is our kids and schools that should be at the top of our…

What are the tests of the blowout preventers showing?

I understand that. But I would, if I were reading the things that you also are reading--I guess I will try one more time--rather than expecting that people are actually fulfilling their obligations, what are you doing to assure that people…

This committee has a serious responsibility to explore the issue of workforce safety and workplace protections generally, and BP in particular.

These two tragedies took a tremendous toll on human life, and unfortunately, there are other problematic lapses in recent company history that also worry me.

A great deal of attention stemming from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon has focused on the spill.

I know the tests have occurred, and we wouldn't--and if there was a problem with any of the blowout preventers that we have, then we would have looked at that, and we would have made sure that we could operate safely.

Have those been changed since the Deepwater Horizon accident?

Do you think that it would be possible to create a legislative instrument to help manage our deficit to a percentage of GDP?

What is appalling about it, among other things, is that we really don't have much to show for it.

I have spent much more time in K-12 education than I have higher ed, and came to believe that the alignment of our incentives and disincentives in public education are largely out of whack in terms of the outcomes that we really want for…