jeremy bell's father passed away just three days before the vote. so now here we are in the senate with the chance to pass the same bill, the bill that has already passed the house unanimously. it's a bipartisan bill. it's the bill that i introduced. it is the companion legislation, and as i mentioned, we have bipartisan support for this bill. but i hear some people suggesting that maybe -- maybe we should wait, maybe now is not the right time, maybe we need more time. mr. president, i just want to say as strongly as i can, we have had enough waiting. we have wasted enough time. and let me explain why we can't wait another day. i want to start with two numbers. the first is 130. since january 1 of this year, mr. president, 130 teachers have been arrested across america for sexual misconduct with children. that's more than one teacher arrested for each day of the year so far, and that's, of course, only those who have been caught and arrested. every moment we delay, we delay rooting out some of these problems. the other number is 73. 73 is the number

roy bell is the name of jeremy's dad. he worked with congress to create protections for children to ensure that they would not be victimized at school. and the house of representatives responded. in october of last year the house unanimously passed the protecting students against sexual and violent predators act. unfortunately, there too -- they too were too late. jeremy's dad passed away a few days before the vote. but it passed the house, passed unanimously in the house. and now here we are in the senate with a chance to pass the same bill so that it can become law. it's a bipartisan bill. it's a bill that i introduced with senator manchin. it's a bill that has other cosponsors. and i know there's some folks who say, well, let's wait. we need more time. madam president, i say we've had enough waiting. we've waited too long. let me explain why we shouldn't wait another day. i'll start with two numbers. the first number, madam president, is 130. senator manchin mentioned this number. since january 1 of this year, 130 teac

bell. coming up on "street smart," everything you need to know about the selloff sparked by high-valuation worries. i'm willing to bet that jeremy siegel is not scared by this. he'll join us in a couple of minutes. it's the interview that everyone is talking about. bill groce gets really personal. he did so right here on "street smart." in case you missed it, we'll talk about that and a whole lot more coming up here on "street smart." we have a market selloff underway. earlier in the day we did see the nasdaq turn positive. however, that's all gone with the nasdaq now losing better than 1%. we want to move on to the big three, the blue stocks we're watching. >> we've got to start with jpmorgan. first member of the dow jones industrial average to report numbers, and they didn't look great. we saw earnings falling more than estimated. 42% drop in mortgage revenue, 21% decline in fixed-income trading. both of those things were expected, judge maybe not the magnitude of the drops that we did see. so we're seeing the biggest decline for jpmorgan shares in about a year's time. at different points during the session. we'll see if it ke