[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 11378-11379]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        EVERY CHILD ACHIEVES ACT

  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I see that the majority leader has 
filed cloture on the bill, which I understand. We have had a chance to 
have a good discussion and a good debate.
  We are getting toward the end of the consideration of our bill to fix 
No Child Left Behind. We have a couple of issues that we need to 
resolve, but there are only a couple, and for a bill this complicated, 
that is pretty good. So it would be my hope that we could continue on 
through the process, and the majority leader might even get to the 
point later in the week where he would be able to vitiate the cloture, 
and we could finish without a cloture vote.

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  So far, so good. We have considered 58 amendments in committee and 
adopted 29. We have considered 25 on the floor, adopted 8 by rollcall, 
11 by voice, and we have dozens more that have been agreed to by 
Senator Murray and me and that we would recommend to the Senate that we 
complete.
  So it is my hope that Senators will allow us to have a consensus 
about this bill. As was said by Newsweek magazine last week, this is 
the Education bill that everybody wants fixed, and we are the ones who 
are supposed to fix it. So while there are some issues toward the end 
that are a little more difficult to resolve than others, I hope 
Senators will agree that people have had a chance to have their say on 
education issues and that we can go on to the other important issues 
facing the country.
  I thank the Republican leader for giving us an opportunity to put 
this on the floor. I thank the Democratic leader for allowing us to 
move to the floor without delay. I hope we can continue over the next 
couple of days and finish the bill this week and get on to other 
important issues.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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