Chris Murphy

As has been mentioned, things are not going well today in Afghanistan.

I think we should change that formula.

But the Federal Government needs to make sure that it provides reasonable subsidies for students to attend high quality institutions and it does not.

We spend all this time regulating colleges on things that do not have to do with the price of college when, to most families, that combined with whether they get a job afterwards is the most important thing to them.

I wanted to broaden out the conversation that Senator Hassan started about how you build affordability into regulatory accountability measures.

I think this is the most important discussion in the context of higher education reauthorization, getting the accountability metrics right.

If we simplify the regulation of colleges and got rid of some of the weeds but made sure that they were paying attention to outcomes, I think that would make it a lot easier to allow for a little bit more freedom of innovation underneath.

I do worry about the Congress or regulator directing what innovation is allowed to happen and what isn't.

If you set rigorous completion rates, and you don't reach them, you should not be funded anymore.

I do believe in rigorous regulation. I think that there should be regulation holding colleges to outcomes that they set.

Innovation stinks without accountability.

I think it is ridiculous that colleges don't have the ability to build more innovative models.

There are clear intersections with civil rights, and I hope that, maybe as you previewed in your answer to Senator Hassan's questions, you'll take a look at those.

Cost, quality, and simplification are all three good words for us to talk about.

The idea behind the PROSPER Act and some of these, some of this line of thought, Dr. Chingos, is that if you just limit the Federal student loan indebtedness, they will be less likely to take a chance.

I think there is a real interesting bipartisan conversation to be had about reducing the regulatory framework for colleges, but then making them think more about the cost and the outcome.

I just want to use my soapbox for a moment to express my hope and desire that as much focus as we put into this question of simplifying student loans, that we put double the effort into efforts to improve the cost and the quality of the…

I would share those concerns to the extent that your answer suggests that the future role of the U.S. military in Syria will be aimed at addressing Iranian and Iranian-backed military presence there.

I would argue that you are operating under a flawed premise, which is that there is any future for Syria that does not involve a substantial role for Iran.

We have signaled in so many different ways that we are no longer interested in being in the lead with respect to the political and economic future of Syria.

I just do not think it is credible to suggest that our seat at the table right now comes through any means other than our military presence.

I think some of us can do a better job of trying to marry together those concerns.

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I just raised the question because if we're going to spend an awful lot of money on this epidemic, I think it's worth challenging us to think about the ways in which we can----

Secretary Mattis called for a ceasefire in the next 30 days.