John Tierney: “Do you think it is important to have a law that requires that people not be able to discriminate on race?”

At this point, I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Connecticut, Joe Courtney, who has been a strong member of the committee and an advocate of workforce investment for some time.

I need to express my wish to have the unemployment benefits extended as soon as possible.

The record isn't great on special ed, other than all of the rhetoric from elected officials about how much they support it.

I just know that we have been making a comparison here today that if we could change the committee's function off of trying to usurp a decision by the board that hasn't been made yet, we could talk about raising the minimum wage, which in…