This is nuts. The data are already collected and the Education Department will not turn them loose.

If we are serious about speeding up biomedical innovation, about improving health, about reducing long-term costs, we start by investing in NIH.

It will take only 51 votes in the Senate to make those changes the law.

One of my concerns about fast track is that a future President could use it to negotiate a TTIP agreement that weakens our financial rules or disrupts our regulatory system.

What alarms me is that if regulatory changes are included in a future trade deal with the EU, that opportunity for tailoring disappears.

Energy efficiency programs, I think we all agree, are critical to reducing carbon emissions and fighting global climate change.

Energy efficiency technologies can be a pretty good deal. They protect the environment. They fight climate change. They save money for consumers.

Congress is debating whether to give the President fast-track authority, that would reduce Congress' ability to shape major trade agreements.

The profits are privatized, but when something goes wrong, sometimes taxpayers end up having to deal with the consequences.

Giving into the temptation of a short-term fix with private money and then paying for it with long-term taxpayer money not only does not create any new resources for infrastructure; in fact, it makes the problem worse over time.

Do you agree that there should be strong Federal oversight to evaluate the costs, the risks, and the benefits of these programs?

I rise in support of the Truth in Settlements Act. This bipartisan legislation, which I introduced earlier today with my colleague from Oklahoma Senator Lankford, the Presiding Officer, will help the public hold Federal agencies…