Only a mother of a 1-year-old would call them a 'blob'.

You never failed children; you never faltered in being their advocate.

The more we knew about that, the more we could do about it.

Congress should be very proud of the efforts it has made over the decades to improve the access to and the quality of public education in this Nation.

It is hard to believe that additional thinking and investment in this issue... would not pay enormous dividends for the Nation.

I'm just as curious as to why, because I suspect there are people who are involved in that who would also want to be associated and think of themselves.

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I rise today to speak on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a critically important bill to guarantee women equal pay for equal work. I am proud to lead the effort in the Senate to pass this legislation, which my dear friend and colleague Rosa…

I would remind everybody of something that you did during the Clinton administration.

I'm not expecting people to become all PBS stations, necessarily.

Helen, once again thank you immensely; and so articulate; wonderful to hear that story about that woman from Maine.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

We need to make sure that they are ready for school; and in those early years, we need to make sure that every school is ready and expects every child to learn.

I believe that the recent 2-year nationwide decline, albeit small, is encouraging and this should be the beginning of a positive trend. The recent developments must be supported by access to better health care, new research and new…

Few Senators in the history of this body can claim such a record of accomplishment.

The question we never could get anyone to do was to tell us, now what would be the cost saved if someone uses it and actually loses weight, becomes healthier and all the other aspects of it.

I frankly don't understand the thinking here.

every person represented on this table here today is a member of the Financial Services Oversight Commission

Well, do you talk to the regulator about this?

The fact that it is at 14 percent speaks of another larger--coming down to the point where whether or not someone is in default or not, that is the end of the process.

I mean, the confusion, this seems like a fairly simple one we might resolve.

I presume you consider other sources of income that may be coming in--family support, others that could be supporting that conclusion.

We need to examine the role of the regulators here.

We created the Financial Stability Oversight Council to examine exactly this kind of issue.

Well, let me urge you to keep at that.