The first version of this legislation back in 1965 was to affirm the Federal role in protecting civil rights and educational opportunities for all students, especially our most vulnerable students.

Given the long history of State and local decisions shortchanging vulnerable students, the Department cannot shirk from its responsibility, regulatory and enforcement responsibility, to ensure that the implementation of ESSA eliminates…

the Department of Education ensure that those States actually use the money to help those kids.

the Department of Defense announced funding for a new $317 million innovation institute in Massachusetts that would focus on researching revolutionary fibers and textile manufacturing.

I think as we talk about the question about how we build a manufacturing base, certainly part of that is to make the investments in R&D, to make sure that our trade policies benefit, not just big business and their investors, but that they…

I think that is obscene.

I hope you will move quickly to complete your rulemaking on payday loans. You are the best hope for millions of American families to avoid these debt traps in the future.

payday lenders that build business models around trapping people in the never ending cycle of debt are throwing bricks to a drowning man.

Thank you for all the hard work that you have done to draw attention to the impact of Alzheimer's on families all across this country.

Our bill would also help ensure that sex-specific data and analyses will actually be conducted and reported, and that sex is considered as a potentially important variable in pre-clinical studies.

I just do want to add one point on this, and that is to express my gratitude to Senator Collins for her leadership on the Advancing NIH Strategic Planning and Representation in Medical Research Act because this is an important step in…