We would like to turn it and head it in the right direction. We want to repair the damage that Obamacare has done.

Ms. Burwell's distinguished leadership and her notable experience in both the private and public sectors make her uniquely qualified to lead HHS during this critical time.

The proposed Gainful Employment (GE) regulation represents an unprecedented expansion of administrative and regulatory functions at the Department of Education.

I mean, they did that in 90 days.

We have a political dispute over Yucca Mountain.

I don't think you can do it from here or order it from here or define it from here.

And you are undermining, I am afraid, the very high standards and teacher evaluation systems that I think both of us want to do.

We have worked hard to try to find a way to control costs on these great big energy projects.

We agree that we want higher standards for our 100,000 public schools.

I just have a couple of questions. I look forward to our discussion, Mr. Klotz, General, that Senator Feinstein asked about in a couple of weeks, so we can talk a little more about the MOX report that came out yesterday.

I believe that is a State and local responsibility, and you believe it can be required from Washington, DC.

In my opinion, what you are doing with this very well-intentioned overreach, I think, is creating a backlash among conservatives who don't like the Federal Government involved.

But the most productive.

Let us see what you can do with this. Take this money and combine it with yours, combine it with private money and we will be the enablers. We will not be the mandaters.

A lot of the debate in Washington is between, what I would say, the mandaters and the enablers, and it is not always a partisan divide.

It sounds to me like a national school board for preschool education, which is one way to do it, but that is the mandating way, not the enabling way.

There is not any question about whether early learning is important. That question is: what is the best, next step?

I used to chafe most under people who did not think I had enough sense to figure those things out for myself in our local schools.

I think it's a very different idea. It came out of a bipartisan proposal called America COMPETES.

I want to start by thanking Secretary Moniz and Mr. Poneman for your attention to mercury contamination at Oak Ridge.

We have some big ideological differences on this committee, but we also get a lot done, sometimes unanimously, because we go through that process.

I'm committed to the deal that you made with South Carolina. I'm committed to getting this stuff off the market and finishing the program that's 60-percent complete that the Nation needs.

I have been urging for approval of Keystone XL for over 3 years now.

My goals are, one, basic research; two, getting control on the construction progress for major projects to reduce spending on mature technologies and focus spending on research for new technologies, and to modernize the deterrent.

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