America is undergoing this great revolution in natural gas.

I have great confidence and, again, I think the President has made a very wise choice.

I thank the gentleman from North Dakota for yielding and bringing this important issue to us today to have a conversation on. I am a firm believer in the all-of-the-above approach to our energy needs of America. Making energy in America…

the next Director of FHFA has to continue to maintain the value of the assets of Fannie and Freddie.

But do they routinely show impairment or do they assume that, one, they will collect eventually?

we are reaching a tipping point with student loan debt

Please do so. But, again, I just want to confirm, Mr. Chopra, from your perspective, your point was that you are not seeing the kind of modifications numbers that would follow from the loan crisis that you are seeing in terms of…

I would like to offer some brief reflections on the distinguished service and accomplishments of Senator Frank Lautenberg. He possessed an unwavering commitment to our country and its highest ideals of duty and fairness. His achievements…

Are you confident that you have the systems in place to prevent the cyber aspects of the aircraft from being compromised and confident that at this point they are not?

I rise to add my support to S. 744, the comprehensive immigration bill we have been debating over the past week. I first wish to thank the eight Senators who came together to draft this bipartisan bill. They have done an extraordinary job…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allocated 8 minutes and that the remaining Democratic time be under the control of the Senator from Connecticut, Mr. Murphy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

today I pay tribute to an exceptional library advocate and public servant in Rhode Island, Howard Boksenbaum, who is retiring from his position as the State's chief library officer after a long and distinguished career. Howard graduated…

I am pleased to be joined by Senator Blunt in the introduction of the Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2020, there will be a shortage of 91,000 physicians…

This looks like a, you know, I forget the David Mamet play that the guy in the boiler room saying, you know----

We are providing public resources for the benefit of service men and women, that we are subsidizing them, not private enterprise necessarily.

I would suggest that you might consider it.

Sorry, we can't support you with tuition assistance.

It seems to me that now given the technology, particularly the distance learning, that the marginal cost of a military student is very close to zero.

We could come in and say, 'There is a new max.' Or, we could come in and say, 'There has to be a correlation.'

I appreciate the comments from the Senator from Oklahoma. As far as the legislation that has been passed by the House Republicans, we know that for the 4 years of borrowing at the maximum loan amounts, for students entering college in 2018…

I certainly respect my colleague's words about working together. I think we have to work together. I also respect the fact that he has made a proposal and the President has made a proposal. In my mind, both proposals fall very short on…

I ask through the Chair if the Senator from Vermont would yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request.

July 1 is less than 3 weeks away, and unless Congress acts, the interest rate on need-based student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, making college more expensive for more than 7 million students across the Nation…

Thank you for your service, by the way, as well as for your testimony today.

You've got to advertize. You've got to make students, the military students aware of these options.