It is powerfully important.

If you think that means that we will be taking on more risk in the system--and I think that is what it means--I wish you would tell us so.

I want to thank the senior Senator from Washington for her leadership on this important issue and for gathering women to come to the floor today to talk about the Republican bill that has been proposed and that we will be voting on soon…

I urge the Committee to take seriously the need to improve accountability in our higher education system to better protect students and taxpayers.

Unfortunately, Secretary DeVos has refused to enforce either rule--for which she is being sued by state attorneys general and others.

By developing a long-range nuclear capability, North Korea is trying to convince our allies that the United States will not protect them.

I think the whole point about having minimum regulations all the way through here and minimum requirements so that the Association Health Plans are not picking people off and leaving people with insurance policies that are not worth the…

Mr. Miller, are for-profit colleges different, and should the Federal Government have rules that acknowledge that difference?

These plans are deliberately designed to avoid the important protections that are there in the ACA.

I am a little surprised that as the head of FSOC and the Secretary of the Treasury that you would support a bill without knowing how much you are actually reducing the regulation on it in this giant financial institutions.

I think part of what we're talking about here is about incentives, and I think that most schools are acting rationally within the terrible system of incentives that we've set up.

They want to leave community health centers in the lurch and most of all, they are going to leave patients in the lurch.

Are you telling me you believe there will be no change or there is no change in any of that language?

By giving schools 'skin in the game' when it comes to their students' success, we give them a financial incentive to do everything they can to ensure their students are well prepared for good paying jobs and the future.

I don't see how we can reauthorize this law without fixing both the college accountability problem and the structural student loan debt problem that's behind this entire business.

When a health policy is not worth the paper that it is printed on, it is not coverage. It is phony insurance and putting an end to these scams was a big part of the reason that Congress passed the Affordable Care Act and set some real…

To better protect students and our taxpayer dollars, I introduced the Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act.

During the Cold War, we succeeded in convincing the Soviet Union that our extended nuclear deterrence was credible.

For-profit colleges are different, and when the Federal Government pours billions of dollars into these colleges, we should put some restrictions on the money that recognize those differences.

If we are truly interested in accountability and risk to taxpayers, the Higher Education Act reauthorization should embrace the Gainful Employment and Borrower Defense rules finalized under the Obama administration.

What worries me is the Trump administration seems to be heading in the opposite direction.

one of the driving motivations behind the Affordable Care Act was to improve insurance coverage for small businesses and for entrepreneurs. It worked.

Our allies in Asia rely on the United States nuclear umbrella for their security.

Among other reforms, the bill eliminates the provision in current law which forbids the Department of Education from setting and enforcing student outcomes standards.

Actually, let me drill down just a little bit more on that.