There's nothing that provides a financial incentive for schools, for instance, to graduate more kids on time.

I was so impressed with the focus you've had on bringing in low-income students.

I just think there's a way to take the billions of dollars that we're using and incentivize the kinds of programs we're talking about today in a way that's not prescriptive and also in a way that's not overly punitive.

later this week we are going to have our first Republican Presidential debate, the official one that is on TV, and a lot of people are going to be watching. There has been a lot of speculation as to who is going to be in the debate, who is…

But this is really a big, big improvement for us. While it was painful, it was--I am getting a lot of nodding heads from the panel as well.

I share the experience that Senator Bennet had of going around my State and having doctors' offices, having hospitals, having skilled nursing facilities, having people say, 'Oh, my God, what a nightmare to go to electronic health record.'

arguably the only good thing that the existing education law did was expose these unconscionable gaps in this country between the performance of minority kids and nonminority kids, between disabled kids and nondisabled kids. Frankly, this…

I thank my great friends Senator Booker and Senator Bennet for their passionate and moving remarks about the task ahead of us, to make sure that as we reauthorize No Child Left Behind, as we reorder our priorities, that we remember that…

I ask unanimous consent that Russell Armstrong, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the rest of the month. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

All this amendment says is that just simply on a State by State basis, identify your achievement gap and then come up with a plan to fix it--no Federal intervention, no Federal prescription of how you fix the problem. It is a big, big…

There's still significant risk. Any time you're choosing to self insure.

Count me as amongst the skeptics that that ultimately is how you continue to bend the cost curve.

hopefully, we can move on. After a Presidential election, two Supreme Court cases, 60-plus votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the House of Representatives, and endless debates here in the Senate, maybe now is the moment where…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Fischer). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cotton). Without objection, it is so ordered.

we had a wonderful event last night here in Washington that I was able to attend. It was a night honoring champions for anti-gun violence measures across the country. It was put on by Sandy Hook Promise, which is an organization that has…

I was so glad to see Senator Stabenow down on the floor a week ago talking about a pretty simple issue, which is the tax increase that is going to occur to 6.4 million Americans if the Supreme Court rules this week, next week, for the…

let me say, before turning to the topic at hand, those of us from Connecticut--especially those of us in and around Sandy Hook, CT--our hearts go out to the community in Charleston. The grief and tragedy they are working and sifting…

I think every other institution within the Federal higher education hierarchy has determined that these guys were the worst of the worst.

Corinthian failed its students by every measurement.

You'd be better off to admit that this was a mistake.

Senator Murray and I hope to have a bipartisan proposal for the committee to begin considering in September.

I think you're living on a different planet than everyone else who reviews the track record of Corinthian.

I think the reason we've ended up with the accreditors as the gatekeepers for title IV is because we were pretty sure Congress didn't have the capacity to do it.

Accreditors just aren't charged with looking at the issue of affordability.