Today I am proud to announce that my fellow Member of the Banking Committee Senator Heitkamp and I, along with Senators Durbin and Murray, are introducing legislation to create opp...
Of the $1 trillion that Senator Crapo mentioned in student loan debt, only about 15 percent, but that is still $150 billion, is in the priva...
If education is what has built this country, education has--this is the greatest country on Earth, how do we get there?
I think you are hearing from all of us that we believe that education being--and the facts are overwhelming that education adds to the value...
I hear from West Virginians across my State that the best teachers are retiring and that poorer districts are having a tough time bringing i...
If it is public policy, it is public policy.
I want to take this in a little different direction. You know, there is postcrisis research regarding community banks showing that public be...
We are deeply concerned about consolidation. We think it is being driven by regulation.
I believe history has proven, back in the 1960s under President Kennedy, when he lowered taxes, that the economy took off and we had more re...
The same was true in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. When he cut taxes, we increased revenue.
And we have a progressive tax system here in this country, and it ought to remain progressive.