Again, in the spirit of our response to the crisis in 2007 and 2008, we are looking at systemic issues.

I recently wrote to Chairwoman Yellen to urge that she consider getting this money out to funds in the States, in our case, the hardest-hit fund in Rhode Island that has had demonstrable success in preventing foreclosure and helping…

I am pleased to introduce the Strengthening Research in Adult Education Act. The recently enacted Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act recognized that the adult education field has evolved from a literacy skills program to a more…

I would hope that he would do so because to send people back to this, literally, danger would be I think inappropriate.

I thank the chairman for yielding time for me to address you this evening. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act that we have authored and submitted for consideration…

You have both the opportunity and obligation to get that money out as quickly as possible to the States.

I presume one of the areas you are really looking at is these capable Iraqis who can communicate and coordinate on the ground, their special forces particularly.

One of the presumptions would be, because we are using air power, that there is sufficient capacity in the Iraqi forces to coordinate that air power on the ground?

today I honor the distinguished career of Pamela K. Haze, who retired from the U.S. Department of the Interior this past August after 34 years of Federal service. Ms. Haze served as the Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget…

I rise today, as I have for many years, to urge my colleagues to fix our Nation's broken campaign finance system. I do so after much deliberation and consideration of a series of Supreme Court decisions and the explosion of undisclosed and…

Can you give us the assurance that these derivatives rules are at the very top of your list to get done very quickly?

We certainly owe, as a minimum, fair dealing in the marketplace.

Let me commend you on that, because as you understood--as we understood--trying to sort out the lines and create different agencies, to do different things--what we tried to do is basically take the existing structure and make it cooperate…

I suggest we all have to move faster.

It is absolutely the case, Senator.

I come to the floor today to once again press for action on my bipartisan legislation to restore emergency unemployment benefits. Over 3.5 million Americans have lost benefits since the program expired last December. The need to help these…

today, in an effort to decrease the rate of drug overdose deaths, I am pleased to be joined by Senators Durbin, Markey, Whitehouse, and Leahy in introducing the Overdose Prevention Act. Representative Donna Edwards has introduced a similar…

I think in the comments, some of these choices are harder than others, it seems, on campus.

I think this has been terribly useful. And I will ask, at least, are we better off than we were in 2008 with some of the provisions we have adopted in Dodd-Frank like those on derivatives, and the fact that we have actually put emphasis on…

But a lot of times we have to take very simple approaches, and there has been a lot of discussion about not letting institutions grow beyond $250 billion.

This has been a very informative panel. Thank you all.

I am appalled by the ethical environment of an industry that would thumb its nose at the Government that rescued it a mere 5 years ago.

they would be required, because they are dispensing Federal funds, to ensure that they do so for the benefit of the student, and if there is an arrangement with a financial institution, it benefits the student----

Is not the solution--at least in concept--to require the school, who is the intermediary, to act as a fiduciary for the student, that----

So, the choice is either let the student decide or, if you are deciding for the student, you have to do it in the best interest of the student. That seems to make sense.