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

Last year, I introduced an amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act reauthorization bill to require the Secretary of Education to protect student privacy but to make these data available.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts is recognized. (The remarks of Ms. Warren pertaining to the…

Public-private partnerships will not solve that problem, and if governments are going to turn to public-private partnerships, the need to exercise the kind of careful oversight our witnesses have talked about is critical to ensure that…