To abandon accountability... is to accept the status quo of inequity in student outcomes.

I understand that there are lots of concerns--and I share those concerns--about making sure that the benefit of education is spread evenly across the children of this country.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an intrusion on State and local Jim Crow laws.

the most effective schools are driven primarily by teachers and school leaders.

I ask unanimous consent to lay aside the pending amendment so that I may call up my amendment No. 29. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk…

What I'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives.

I first wish to thank the distinguished chairman of the energy committee and her ranking member for allowing this process to go forward to the point where I am able to call up this amendment. It is a convention here when amendments are…

with all of the issues our country faces, here we are debating a Canadian pipeline. What are we doing? A new majority has taken over the Senate and their first bill--their opening gambit--is the Keystone Pipeline. What is going on? Is it…

I ask unanimous consent that Joseph Majkut, who is an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, what is the pending business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to proceed to S. 1. Cloture Motion Mr. McCONNELL. I send a cloture motion to the desk. The…

this is my first ``Time to Wake Up'' speech in the Senate as a Member of the minority. Being in the minority will give me the opportunity, for the first time, to use the tools uniquely available to Members of the Senate minority. On the…

The current 75 parts per billion ozone standard has been too high since the day it was finalized by the Bush administration back in 2008.

So a power plant owner looking at this proposed rule could expect that the improvements in emissions that they would be obliged to make as a result, for instance, of the good neighbor policy, would count toward the new ozone standard and…

Seven Americans in ten say we should use more solar and wind power to battle climate change. An AP poll released this week said that half of Republicans favor regulations on carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, the physical evidence of…

So some things, some compliance regimes that will help States achieve the standard are already in place.

As a dad, I will be the first one to admit that when a young child is in an emergency room with an asthma attack, it is likely to be the mom who had to take off work and go and sit there with them.

the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, in its recommendations to the Administrator in June, was so clear about its findings.

So the risk is not that the child or the vulnerable person is going to suddenly begin coughing or having shortness of breath or have an asthma attack, it is that lasting, permanent insidious damage that is being done to the lung that is…

I ask unanimous consent for 1 additional minute to conclude the page in front of me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

And does the harm tend to be cumulative?

The revised standard is a significant improvement.

Somebody obviously didn't find the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to be very credible, in ignoring their recommendations back in 2008.

the Senate will likely pass legislation to extend several dozen expired tax provisions. While I support a number of the individual provisions extended by this bill, I rise today to explain why I reluctantly plan to oppose it. The so-called…

we are winding down the end of this year and, indeed, the end of this Congress, and I am here today to give the last ``Time to Wake Up'' speech in this Congress. I am particularly pleased to be delivering it while my friend from West…

And so the American Thoracic Society, in your view, is also reputable and reliable when it makes a recommendation like this on a matter with its expertise?