The way I see this, Congress is strangling medical research.

I am very hopeful that here in Congress we can put the politics aside and work together to ensure that we do provide much needed tools and support.

The most effective work for keeping Americans safe does not happen when the cameras are rolling and the world is focused on the latest outbreak.

Families' health and safety should not be a zero sum game.

I believe it is critical that in Zika-affected countries we do everything we can to ensure women have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including access to family planning services.

Democrats are going to continue urging bipartisan work to ensure women everywhere have the ability to plan their pregnancies, especially in light of this virus.

Congress entrusted this responsibility to the Department to make sure that when the States receive billions of taxpayer dollars to improve education for our most vulnerable kids that those States actually use that money for our most…

If we want better outcomes, we need better data to figure out where we're failing to reach our students and where we're succeeding.

Democrats in Congress along with the President fought hard to ensure that the new law includes real accountability.

The new education law gives States a lot more flexibility in determining how to educate our kids while it also establishes a Federal baseline to ensure that the States actually use Federal dollars to support teachers and students who most…

I think that one of the most important safeguards in this new law is a bipartisan provision that Senator Gardner and I wrote that requires the States to report better data about how their kids are doing.