There are two fights here... to make sure that we have policies that give access to all employees for paid family leave.

I wholeheartedly agree.

We also know that when there is a bank in a community, access to business financing is more likely to occur.

I don't think that we yet have gotten to the place as a Nation where we can abandon the federal responsibility to make sure that we always maintain a floor.

I think they would find that there are ways to prudently structure financing.

I think public policy has to hold banks accountable to staying in these communities and reinvesting in them.

I think that we have seen many banks focus too much on profit maximization in the short term, rather than looking at the needs of the communities where they do extract tremendous profits.

While I share all of her concerns about Corinthian College, let me just broaden out the problem...

When you're talking about accountability, we need to be able to assess how schools are performing, and that involves understanding how students do after they graduate.

As we look to the ways in which countries would comply with a new global agreement on carbon emissions, efficiency is the quickest and easiest way to get there.

This is a crisis waiting to happen, a country with simmering instability to begin with, a bursting population.

the number one job we have, as Senator Murphy said earlier, is getting prices right.