senator bennet and i have talked about this. and what i would like to do is just call attention to this amendment and then withdraw it and then work with senator bennet, especially. but with the chairmen and ranking member and secretary duncan to see if we can in this process, simplify the title i plan of a peer review process that stayed are required to send in. this is nobody's fault really, but just in the nature of things, over time things build up and we can go through there in a sensible way and make it simpler and easier and clearer and more common sense for states to do things on the things they report, people pay more attention to them waste their time. that is something senator bennet and i talked about and i look forward to working with them on that is that correctly state his intention. >> it does. and then, i would like to offer, mr. chairman, amendment number six on public-school choice. this is an existing program that requires local education agencies to provide students the lowest performing -- well, today if yo

mitt romney said bill bennet, the speaker before romney, bill bennet went after that pastor in that speechstrongly condemning those remarks and reminded the voters here at this summit that george washington believed in religious freedom. so bill bennet went right after this contcontroversy. and when romney got up to give his speech, he said, quote, i think bill bennet hit it out of the park. it's no accident that he used those words because rick perry, yedz, when he was giving his speech said that pastor jeffres hit it out of the park when he gave his remarks introducing the texas governor. so there's a little bit of a back and forth here. it's subtle, it's coded. but make no mistake, these two campaigns, as you've seen in all of these dblts are going right at each other and the perry campaign said yesterday, well, we had no idea that pastor jeffress was going to say this. this was the event that pt put pastor jefferss here. i tried to get the governor to comment to this issue. he walked right past us. the romney campaign, you better believe they are dealing with this issue and when govern

governor romney, when he got up on stage after bill bennet, he said bill bennet hit it out of the park. it was a subtle dig at rick perry, but it was a dig that everybody here at this conference completely understood. later on in his speech, mitt romney had something else to say about a gentleman by the name of brian fisher with the american family association. he's another prominent social conservative who has criticized mormonism and mitt romney said that poisonous language, in his words, does not advance our cause and has never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind. just for a brief few moments, mitt romney talked about his faith. here is what he had to say. >> our heritage of religious faith and sole rans has importantly shaped who we become as a people. we must continue to welcome faith into the public square and allow it to flourish. our government -- our government must respect religious values, not silence them. we will always pledge our allegiance to a nation that is under god. >> now, the romney campaign, those that are close to mitt romney and the candidate himse

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de washington asesino de 45 yardas, bennet y atrapada de ...hoa y andrés guardado feuron convocados para partido contrea serbia. >> vamos con edgardo para ver cómo van las cosas con ocupemos oakland. >> gracias, hace momentos hicimos recorrido por plaza... vemos cómo se unen, saldrán en marcha a eso de las 8 de la noche, para protestar en conrta del sistema, por brutalidad policial y también invitar a la comunidad especialmenet a los comerciantes para que el miércoles se unan aparo general de actividaes. en la mañana hicieron algo similar. este volante está en español los dejaron por varios negocios, algunos organizadores nos diejro que estos volantes fueron repartidos a los hispanos para que se unan. logramos contar unas 600 a 800 personas que se congregaron frente a la alcaldía de oakland. >> supongo que las casas de campaña aumentaron, qué pasa con la policía ahí. >> debo decir que esa es una de las criticas que se le hace a la ciudad porque son tolerables con el movimient,ellos pueden protestar de 6 de la mañana a las 10 de la noche, hasta

bennet: i will in one second. anything remotely approaching our claim to be a land of opportunity when 9 out of 100 children born in poverty can graduate with a college degree, when 91 out of 100 children who are unfortunate enough to be born poor are con straepbd to the march -- constrained to the margin of our democracy and the margin of our economy. just to be clear about it, there are 100 seats in the united states senate. when i walk in this room, i think about what if the 100 people that were here were children living in poverty in the united states? here's how many would have a college degree that. chair, that chair, that chair, that chair, these four chairs and this one. that's it. the rest of this chamber would be occupied by people that didn't have the benefit of a college degree. mr. paul: will the senator yield for a question? mr. harkin: i believe i have the floor. mr. bennet: mr. president. mr. paul: i'm asking to yield for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa has the floor. mr. h

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senator bennet, amendment 1. when i took over as superintendent, i found and accountability system that was asking the wrong questions. we asked how one class of fourth graders was doing compared to the previous year. it was not useful to any parent. we had a backward system where washington was telling us out to do things but not setting a high bar for excellence. i think there will washington is to set high expectations for all of our students and let the people closest to our kids figure out how to meet those goals. we are taking huge steps in the right direction. we can look at the student's progress over time, but it is important that all students are expected to make progress. i am introducing this amendment so states set performance our goal is that we are increasing student achievement with the tools that they need. they have told me that performance targets are a useful tool for them in that work. 39 states have announced they are applying for waivers with republican governors. performance targets allows

bennet: thank you."p & g's profits boomed with the increasing affluence of middle-class households in the post world war ii economy." the story i was just telling. "for generations, procter & gamble's growth strategy was focused on developing household stables for the vast american middle class. now, p & g executives say many of its former middle-market shoppers are trading down to lower-priced goods -- widening the pools of have and have-not consumers at the expense of the middle." quption p & g isn't the only company adjusting its business. a wide swath of american companies is convinced that the consumer market is bifurcating into high and low ends and eroding in the middle. they have begun to alter the way they research, develop and market their products." madam president, in other words, they have begun to alter their business plan with the assumption that the middle class is evaporating in this country, and that their growth markets are the very richest among us, on the one hand, and the very poor

i thank senator bennet from colorado for joining me in this effort. i thank representative cooper and ryan for their leadership in the house. and, madam president, it's my hope that either through unanimous consent or early action soon that this bill will become law. i think as long as americans understand where things stand, americans help us here in congress make good and sound decisions. that's why i'm introducing this bill today with the help of senator bennet from colorado. with that, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i want to congratulate senator corker for his usual good judgment and insight in helping us work on a difficult problem. no member of this body has done more in the last year to try to highlight the problem of the federal debt. his cap plan which has been a part of almost every discussion we had seriously about it, through his effort more recently to support efforts to try to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction as a part of the select committee and h

senator bennet? >> to the ranking member. the ranking member's comment generally.i think, this is not what the ranking member would say but it just occurs to me that we do, we do not do a good job in this country of accounting for the education dollars that are spent, and aligning the education dollars with the stated policies that we have. discuss off-line well because we know we have to turn around 5% of our schools and we know we don't have the capacity in the system to do it. title ii more broadly doesn't particularly a line well with activity. and i would argue the money is often not terribly well spent. so i just want to volunteer that i would be delighted to work with ranking member, or anybody else on that, because it is a central problem. frankly, the legacy legislation accented been passed by the congress. >> i did want to get involved in this. anyone who says title ii funds are not used wisely i would agree with. i've often call title ii the holiday in support and sustainability fund. seems like it's always used for some weekend gathering someplace. they

you don't need to tell michael bennet.is already on the page but i'm going to need you guys to be out there calling and tweeting and all the stuff you do. [laughing] but, but listen, we're not going to wait though. we're not waiting for congress. last month when i addressed a joint session of congress about our jobs crisis i said i intend to do everything in my power right now to act on behalf of the american people with or without congress. [cheers and applause] we can't wait for congress to do its job so where they won't act, i will. [cheers and applause] and that's why in recent weeks we've been taking a series of executive actions. we decided we couldn't stop, we couldn't just wait for congress to fix no child left behind. we went ahead and decided, let's give states the flexibility they need to meet higher standards for our kids and improve our schools. [applause] we said we can't wait for congress --. jon: the president there, among other things blaming republicans in the senate for the failure of his jobs bill to pa

. >> bill bennet. >> he's had a tough series of debates.texas is a big state, the governor is a big job but nothing like rning for president. that process is railroad tough. there are a lot of critics of this process. i think we are finding out important things about these guys. we will find out good rick prayer, whether he can bounce back and recover. >> you look at herman cain, you look at the polls and straw policy, do you think he can win the nomination and be the next president? >> i think he can and i think several of them can. he's a first-steer candidate now. what he has, what washington said, he's a first class disposition. >> the funny, never gets uptight. >> you know what happened in that debate i pound so interesting when it was announced that he had beaten cancer, the audience just spontaneously applauded. >> that was great. >> people admire that and they take it as a morale strength. but the disposition that comes out of that, when you have looked the grim reapner the eye. >> he had stage 4 cancer. t look at the company. it's

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bennet: i will in one second. anything remotely approaching our claim to be a land of opportunity when 9 out of 100 children born in poverty can graduate with a college degree, when 91 out of 100 children who are unfortunate enough to be born poor are con straepbd to the march -- constrained to the racymarch -- constrained to the and the margin of our a economy. and i'll stop here, but just to be clear, there are 100 seats in the united statesat senate. abo think about what of the 100 people that were here were pover children living in poverty in the united states. here's how many would have a decree. thatcher, that chairth committes for chairs than this one.t of cd that's it. the rest of this chamber would be occupied at people he didn't have a college degree. >> what the senator yield? mr. e >> i'm asking tosi yield.nator r >> senator from iowa has the fuller. d >> i recognize the senator wants to do this in an orderly mannern people wanted to be here to speak. i think the senator from colorado made some h good

you don't need to tell michael bennet. he's already on the page.but i'm going to need you guys to be out there calling and tweeting, all the stuff you do. [laughter] .. >> so where they won't act, i will. [cheers and applause] and that's why in recent weeks we've been taking a series of executive actions. we decided we couldn't stop, we couldn't just wait for congress to fix no child left behind. we went ahead and decided let's give states the flexibility they need to meet higher standards for our kids and improve our schools. [cheers and applause] we said we can't wait for congress to help small businesses, we're going to go ahead and say to the federal government, pay small businesses faster if they're contracted so they've got more money and they can start hiring more people. [applause] we said we're not going to wait for congress to fix what's going on in our health care system, we eliminated regulations that will save hospitals and patients billions of dollars. [applause] and yesterday, yesterday we announced a new initiative to make it easier

guest: also, the house, under michael bennet, he did win -- there are clues for how president obama himself get reelected during tough economic times. host: do you want to break any personal news? guest: you have put me on the spot. i am proud to say that my pro friend, betsy, -- girlfriend betsy and i are now engaged. she, of course, works out for a rival network. host: you can watch nbc's "meet the press." guest: thank you, steve. host: we will continue the conversation, focusing on obama's campaign. craig crawford and mark pinsky will be joining us. and nirvi shah will be joining us as we continue our look at education issues, the individuals with disabilities act. the federal government will spend about $13 billion on this issue. at 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 on the west coast. thank you for joining us on this sunday morning. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up, "newsmakers" with tom harkin. later, tim geithner testified before a senate small

opportunities, just this last week i introduced the san juan mountain wilderness act along with senator bennet. my bill would designate -- and we have a photograph of this wonderful, inspiring area -- this bill would designate 30,000 areas in southwestern, colorado as wilderness. it would also designate 2k 2,000 acres as a special management area and was draw over 6,000 acres from mineral entry lands in the area. this bill is the work of extensive input and collaboration among and across every imaginable stakeholder group. and i want to particularly note the efforts of former congressman john salazar and his staff who worked with the affected colorado county commissioners, interested citizens, and my staff in developing this legislation over the last four years. it's crafted to take into account the various ongoing uses of these lands such as for water supplies and recreation, while also providing strong managerial protection for these sensitive lands. i don't have to tell you when you see this photograph, among many, that this region of colorado is blessed with stunning beauty. much of the la

bennet may know but i don't think there's any existing way you can. you have to create a mechanism to do that which probably means you have to create a person to carry out that tracking. that would be my guess. >> any other -- >> mr. chairman? >> senator murkowski. >> so just to clarify then from senator isakson, if you do receive the competitive grants and you cannot establish it, i guess it becomes a requirement you must establish this tracking mechanism for kids moving up from middle school in order to receive these competitive grants, is that correct? >> yes, i think that's right. in order to receive a competitive grant, as i understand it, yes. i'll let the senator describe it. >> it's a question, senator murkowski, of fracking the records that go from the eighth grade to the high school. so i think it's -- senator alexander made a good point. this is complicated stuff and all that we're trying to do here and i think we all agree the dropout rate is unacceptably high. all i would like to do here with minimal bureaucratic effort is to try to track

bennet, you don't understand we are running an orphanage here. i understood her, what she was trying to say but what i said there was it said high school on the outside. if we are going to accept it as an orphanage we need to take that name off of the side of the building and call it something else. so my hope i am saying for the record is whatever these models are are at least as robust as the ones that are contained in the legislation because otherwise we are going to have the children marooned in that 5% of schools marooned in those schools for the rest of their k-12 education and the rest of our lives. i think that is the issue here. >> mr. chairman -- i know we want to get to of votes but i do think we got a little sidetracked on the vouchers may be. i think this is the key point. what is best for the kids? remembering that this is the bottom 5%, i still remember joel kline saying these mechanisms, these turnaround models gave him the ability to do it. on the other hand, i too understand senator alexander has the best intentions here and the

feinstein, senator heller, senator tom udall, senator boxer, senator cantwell, senator murray, senator bennet, senator merkley, senator sanders, senator johnson, senator begich, senator mccaskill and senator mark udall and senator al frank -7b, all of whom are cosponsoring this important legislation. i hope the rest of the senate will join us again to support the continuation of these important programs and enact this legislation. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: mr. president, thank you. i'm happy to rise today to speak about the three trade agreements that are working their way over to the senate. at a time when unemployment is over 9% and we have over 14 million americans out of work, it's past time for us to take up these three important agreements. these agreements with korea, colombia, and panama are going to create jobs and put americans back to work. that's why it's so important we move and move hon a bipartisan basis to get them done. with 95% of consumers living outside of our borders, we need to p

bennet: i will in one second. anything remotely approaching our claim to be a land of opportunity when 9 out of 100 children born in poverty can graduate with a college degree, when 91 out of 100 children who are unfortunate enough to be born poor are con straepbd to the march -- constrained to the margin of our democracy and the margin of our economy. just to be clear about it, there are 100 seats in the united states senate. when i walk in this room, i think about what if the 100 people that were here were children living in poverty in the united states? here's how many would have a college degree that. chair, that chair, that chair, that chair, these four chairs and this one. that's it. the rest of this chamber would be occupied by people that didn't have the benefit of a college degree. mr. paul: will the senator yield for a question? mr. harkin: i believe i have the floor. mr. bennet: mr. president. mr. paul: i'm asking to yield for a question. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa has the floor. mr. h