Does President Obama hate Louisiana?

I am incredibly, I cannot put enough hyperbole in front of this, opposed to the Department's budget proposal to deprive the Gulf Coast states of the revenue promised under the Gulf of Mexico Security Act.

It does seem if you raise the cost of that energy production by these measures ultimately you increase the input and change the model so companies are more likely to move overseas.

Now I look at that $5.7 billion as basically forcing manufacturers overseas for anything that is energy intensive.

Mr. Cohen, Senator Warren just characterized this as a broken system, and yet you point out that unions are winning an increasing percentage of the elections.

I do think it's important for the record that for childhood immunization, the Affordable Care Act has really, not hurt, but it has certainly not augmented that which was previously there.

Some of it's stable. I just am wondering about Senator Murray's statement--and you seemed to concur--that the Affordable Care Act may have improved immunization rates.

The genius of the franchisee-franchisor relationship is that you can take someone who doesn't necessarily have the intuitions of an entrepreneur.

I am struck that some people are just born entrepreneurs.

My gosh, Ken Bradford could be the only person who speaks today.

Now, with teachers, what are the top two variables?

Yes, I did. But it's not the teacher. It's not the principal. It's not the school. It's the parents' educational level?

Is there a second variable you would throw in there? Because that was not correlated with the teacher.

I'm not a teacher. Well, I am a teacher. I teach with a medical school, and so I have some experience.

Again, you find some improvement in mathematics, but otherwise, these highly motivated kids with great verbal skills are still little able to impact kids who are otherwise anchored down by a terrible family life or a less advantageous…

So you must have regression analysis within that. Can you give me your top four, actually give me the top two.

I would say the school boards are doing the right thing by concentrating dollars in the classroom.

Senator Murphy is absolutely right, the cost of health care has been mitigated since before Obamacare, but it's continued under Obamacare.

this is my first speech to the Senate. It is interesting because as a child I would read about how the Senate was a great deliberative body. I would read of the debates in which issues were discussed that changed the course of our…

I thank the Senator from Kansas. (The remarks of Mr. Roberts pertaining to the introduction of S. 168 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

It has been over 6 years since backers of the Keystone XL pipeline first submitted an application to the U.S. State Department, on September 19, 2008, to build this energy infrastructure project and bring jobs and greater energy security…

These jobs are at risk when President Obama blocked the ability to construct pipeline infrastructure or blocked exploration and production off the Outer Continental Shelf or places hurdles in front of the exportation of liquefied natural…

I thank my colleague from Nebraska, Mr. Terry, Chairman Upton, and Chairman Hastings for incorporating important provisions that I have worked on in this bill, specifically provisions that would prevent or roll back onerous EPA regulations…

I firmly believe by raising awareness of dyslexia we can change the way we educate our children and assist millions of children to get onto the pathway of success.

I have a personal connection with dyslexia since my niece is dyslexic.