Nine percent of students graduating from high school go to for-profit colleges and universities--9 percent. Yet 35 percent of all student loan defaults are from students from for-profit colleges and universities.

Your budget increases the interest burden of students. Your budget freezes the Pell Grant, so they have to borrow more.

However--this is troubling--in the fiscal year 2018 budget proposal, there are large cut proposals to the career and technical education State grants program.

I think we are facing a student loan crisis in America.

I would like to address the comments that were made by the Republican majority leader about the issue of healthcare. What he said today I have never heard him say before. He said it was the fault of the Democrats for refusing to work with…

I have two words for Bill Dauster: Thank you. Thank you, Bill Dauster, for your brilliant mind and unwearying service to the U.S. Senate, to the American people, and to America's most noble ideals. Thank you for your good humor, and thank…

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 1262 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

I rise in opposition to the nomination of Judge Amul Thapar to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Thapar is President Trump's first nominee to serve on a Federal appeals court. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee…

I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell), the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. Hirono), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Schatz), and the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall), are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there…

Today I am reintroducing the Fairness for Struggling Students Act. This bill takes an important step toward addressing the student debt crisis in America. It would once again treat private student loans like nearly all other forms of…

I am sure, in the Senator's State, like in our State of Illinois, there are larger cities with big hospitals that treat all kinds of cases, but were it not for that safety net of hospitals in small towns, these people living there would…

That is what the Congressional Budget Office reports. So we have these discussions on the floor--and the Senator from New Hampshire has been in the middle of them because of her State's experience with opioids--and both parties come…

It would disqualify you or raise your premiums because you are a woman. We got rid of that gross discrimination against women when we did the Affordable Care Act. We shouldn't have a similar level of discrimination when it comes to writing…

That is exactly what the Congressional Budget Office reports to us. This afternoon we had a press conference and we invited four or five families to come in with their kids. The theme of the press conference was, what is going to happen if…

If I may also say, I agree completely that discriminating against veterans should hardly be the starting point for the reform of our healthcare system. I want to make this point because I know exactly what the first speech will be from the…

I agree with that. Also, as the Senator from New Hampshire knows better than anybody, originally being a woman was a preexisting condition.

through the Chair, in response to the Senator from New Hampshire, they are equally disastrous. Listen to these quotes from the Congressional Budget Office this afternoon about the Republican repeal plan: ``People who are less healthy…

I want to thank my colleague from New Hampshire before she leaves the floor for her statement on the Affordable Care Act. I know she made reference to the recent report from the Congressional Budget Office that we just received, and it…

on a separate note, it has been more than 5 months since the intelligence agencies in the United States reached a solid consensus on a critical issue. The agencies presented to the American people 5 months ago their damning assessment that…

the Trump administration released its fiscal year 2018 budget this morning. For all the talk on the campaign trail of standing up for the forgotten Americans in this country, the President's budget takes aim at the exact programs that many…

I would like to take a few moments to acknowledge my friend, Mayor Daniel J. McLaughlin of the Village of Orland Park, in my home State of Illinois. There is no stronger advocate for the people of Orland Park than Dan McLaughlin. For more…

let me say at the outset that I offer my condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed or injured in last night's despicable attack at a concert in Manchester, England. Details are still coming in, but this looks like an…

Do you know the identities of the 30,000 who were engaged in this?

By any fair measure, the White House is woefully behind meeting this responsibility.

As a submariner, and as someone who has studied naval strategy in your career, you probably understand better than most how our peer competitors, China for example in particular, look at our vulnerabilities.