The advantage to being the junior Member on the Committee is that I get to follow the good and detailed questions of the Chairman and the Ranking Member.

I am very pleased to see Nani nominated for this new role and she has my strong, heartfelt support for it.

you have my wholehearted support, and if you are confirmed to this position, I hope that we will be able to work together to help advance HUD's very important mission.

it has taken us 4 months, but we are finally on the verge of passing a long-overdue emergency extension of unemployment benefits. So I come to the floor this afternoon to urge my colleagues to continue supporting America's working families…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Boston's Lost Heroes

this is a difficult day for the city of Boston. Yesterday Boston lost two courageous firefighters who gave up their lives battling a terrible fire in the city's Back Bay. When others flee, our firefighters rush headlong into danger…

I think it is obscene for the Federal Government to be making profits like this, measured in the billions of dollars, off the backs of our students.

We don't build a future if we crush our young people with debt and don't let them have a fighting chance to get a start.

It's not following the rules.

I want to suggest that--we know that there are problems with Sallie Mae.

We will issue guidance to the FFEL community through a Dear Colleague letter on how to implement the SCRA and access the Department of Defense's data base soon.

We're charging more interest than we need to run the student loan program, and there's no mechanism to refund that money to the students.