Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I fundamentally do not believe that this administration cares about the outcomes of students at East Hartford High School, because if you did, you would not be proposing these massive cuts in the programs that help the kids of East…

One of the things that is important in those accountability regulations is the idea that the States identify schools that need support that are constantly underperforming.

I just do not think there is any room in our public education for individuals making millions of dollars, making their fortune off of taxpayer dollars.

But my question is, what protections will be on taxpayer dollars to make sure that the heads of these companies do not end up becoming millionaires or billionaires off of the operation of these schools?

Education is not mayonnaise. And, frankly, the day that we start treating the education of our children like we do the marketing of a condiment is the day that we have given up on our kids.

I think there is a marriage between innovation and accountability, that people are more willing to support innovation, more willing to support choice, frankly, if they believe that there is real accountability.

But you will conduct an evaluation--I am trying to understand.

I rise to speak on the same subject as my friend from Texas. Listen, Democrats are ready to talk to Republicans about improving our healthcare system, but we aren't going to engage in a debate that presupposes that the end result is going…

We encourage policymakers to broaden the use of health savings accounts and other flexible spending arrangements.

I am on the floor to talk about the status of America's healthcare system. As we speak though, the country is obsessed with the question of the firing of FBI Director Comey and the appointment last night of a special counsel who is going…

It goes without saying that it is in no one's interests in the region for this civil war to continue at its current pace. So this is an important moment at the beginning of a new administration, with a pending arms sale on the table with…

I thank my friend from Indiana. I think he walked through his thoughtful approach to this issue, which has led him to cosponsor this resolution placing these very commonsense conditions upon the transfer of further munitions. I might ask…

I thank Senator Young for making it clear in his prepared remarks that while we are focusing on the Saudis because we are part of this coalition, the Houthis do not have clean hands here either. Part of the reason humanitarian supplies…

colleagues, I am very pleased to be joined on the floor today by Senator Young. We are both members of the Foreign Relations Committee, and both have an interest in Middle East security. We have joined together on the floor today to give…

I thank Senator Merkley for his remarks this week, as this body has been rightly focused on the firing of James Comey and the imagined rationale that the President gave.

It seems as if sometimes we are willing to speak out for democracy when authoritarian regimes are weak or when authoritarian regimes are operating contrary to our interests.

I think this focus we're having today on democracy assistance is really important because, you know, a lot of our constituents are hyper confused about how we approach democracy assistance abroad.

But 2,300 cuts by attrition in the State Department would be absolutely crippling to the State Department and USAID's mission overseas.

I am on the floor today to talk about the CRA resolution pending before the Senate today. I really can't keep track of when my colleagues on the Republican side are for State innovation and when they are against State innovation. When it…

This looks pretty purposeful at this point, the failure to staff the State Department at high levels.

I think what you are hearing from this side is a real worry about what is happening in this administration.

I have worried from the beginning that a European Reassurance Initiative anchored almost wholly in military support misunderstands the nature of the Russian threat.

Real economic assistance, and then, as we have talked a lot about in Congress, real efforts to build up objective media to fight back against the Russia propaganda which is real and present throughout all of the eastern edge of the…