Today, veterans coming back from Afghanistan, if they served 3 years in our military, they can go to school--they can go to Rutgers free, tuition paid for, everything is paid.

Some of them are not. They are diploma mills. They are preparing students for jobs that do not exist.

There is a loophole that allows some of them to get up to 100 percent.

I love competition, and it has been engendered by public school choice and charter schools.

These pop-up schools... I believe they are overstated.

I do not want us to be precipitous about putting limits on the ability to recruit great schools.

Find out what works and do more of that.

The greatest predictor of kids doing well in school is the expectation of their parents.

Thanks for holding the hearing today, and to our witnesses, three of my favorite people are lined up here before us.

We focused on raising student achievement, thought it was the most important thing that we did.

Could competition help us? Sure, it can.

in recent weeks I have spoken three or four or five times on the question of whether we are going to realistically and honestly fund the transportation improvements our country so badly needs. I don't know if it is my imagination, but…

Because you are a Governor and that is what Governors do.

Let me start off by saying to Senator Feinstein, 6 years ago, you, along with Senators Susan Collins, Joe Lieberman, Jay Rockefeller, and others started leading the effort to put in place comprehensive cyber security legislation and…

Just a reminder. We have a facility located close to the University of Delaware where we have a number of bioscience companies and large, not so large, but mid-sized and small.

Joe was good enough to encourage me as a freshman Senator, when I was considering Committee assignments, to consider this one.

If I could interrupt just for a moment? The legislation that we passed last year, Dr. Coburn and I authored, co-authored it, on trying to figure out on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)...

As Senator Lieberman knows, we think a lot about avian influenza, and he knows all about chickens in Delaware.

I told everybody what a great guy you were. And you turned out to be a great Governor.

I said yesterday it was one of my happiest days in my 15 years in the Senate, and you all played a big role in getting us on the right path, so thanks.

it is with great pleasure that I speak on behalf of the Delaware delegation to honor Head Start's 50 years of service to our Nation's most vulnerable children and families in Delaware and nationwide. On May 18, 1965, President Lyndon B…

I want to go back in time a little more than 12, 13 or 14 years ago, to 9/11. One of the lessons learned by the committee on which the Presiding Officer and I serve, now the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was learned…

Colleagues, keep in mind, EINSTEIN 1 and EINSTEIN 2 are already effective to detect but not block these intrusions. EINSTEIN 3, authorized by our legislation, puts a new player on the field--a defensive player--to be able to block these…

I wish to respond very briefly to what our colleague from Oregon has said. Senator Feinstein shared with me a copy of the actual text of the managers' amendment. I would maybe make two points. One, if a private company elects to share…

I would just note that the Presiding Officer and I are on the same schedule, because I come here a couple of times a week, but you are here more often than not when I am speaking. I am sorry. This is cruel and unusual punishment, I…