They wouldn't be able to use it during the day, ... And we don't allow any (students) in the basement of any school for classes or study halls or for any reason so if there is a classroom down there they wouldn't be able to use it.

The first day of class this fall, I broke the students into teams of five and asked them to provide me with four or five tax credits that are currently not in the Internal Revenue Code but would be excellent additions. I ask each group to not only come up with new tax credits, but explain the social, economic or political reason for why the tax credit should be enacted by Congress.

The students who spent the day here now have a better idea of what it means to be a scientist or an engineer and of what they can accomplish.

I am very proud of them. It was a wonderful day for the students.

This is a sad day for students of Connecticut, ... Instead of addressing the issue at hand, the state has chosen to attack a law that is designed to assist the students most in need -- and those whom these funds directly help.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.