Kay Hagan

With 70 early-college high schools in North Carolina, I'm proud to be a cosponsor of the Fast Track to College Act.

I was co-chairman of the Budget Committee in the North Carolina State Senate, when the early-colleges legislation came forward.

Simply put, low expectations are a cancer that can weaken a school enough to make significant changes in teaching impossible.

Do you have any examples or recommendations?

I'm hopeful we'll do that this year in the reauthorization.

I want to echo Senator Burr's welcome of Dr. Tony Habit to our committee today.

I was very surprised to hear your comments about the fact that only 20 percent of funding is going to grades 7 through 12.

I want to follow up on Senator Bennet's question.

I understand that, but do they actually go back and look at it?

Do the teachers actually then go back and do the students see these tests, see what they have done right and wrong?

I think one of the things I have been concerned about is those high-achieving students, sometimes I don't think we expect as much out of them, that we have got to continue setting much, much higher expectations at the same time.

The Obama Administration... to getting broadband out.

I, too, am disappointed that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have decided against even debating Wall Street reform legislation in the Senate. It has been almost 2 years since our financial system stood on the brink of absolute…

We are committed to serving that area.

One of the issues that I hear over and over again is the lack of high-speed broadband that these farmers can use.

Broadband connectivity can help new and small businesses to thrive.

there are two judicial nominees on the calendar from North Carolina who I believe would be confirmed by this body overwhelmingly. Judges Jim Wynn and Al Diaz, nominees for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, were both approved by the…

I want to thank Senator Hagan and Senator Klobuchar for their leadership on combating middle school truancy.

I am excited to report that just this month, Senator Kay Hagan introduced S. Res. 478 designating March as National Whole Child Month.

Under current law, servicemembers who receive educational assistance in the form of an ROTC scholarship or who graduate from one of the service academies are eligible for full educational benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. However…

I want to commend Senator Feinstein for her extraordinary leadership on this issue.

the kind of transparency that you're talking about.

A company can decide that, 'surplus is not profit.'

I think this is completely backwards. I think, if you make money from one profit center--the point of health insurance is to help people.

But, Mr. McRaith, some States are saying that this is proprietary information--not States--some insurance companies are saying that's proprietary information.