U.S. State Attorneys General

My best to you in achieving the balance and meeting the needs of the marines.

I think the sense is that 63 cents of every dollar going to personnel costs is not necessarily the kind of balance that you would want to have in order to make sure that your readiness needs are met.

I think the prevention aspect is one where I would really like to see more specific kinds of programs.

Cybersecurity plays a vital role in the security of our Nation.

I think the sequester has an effect on that.

I believe that closer ties between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan are a positive development.

A strong trilateral relationship can be an important deterrent against regional threats such as those posed by North Korea.

Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea, two of our closest treaty allies, remain strained.

With this additional funding as a result of this agreement, how will DOD prioritize readiness funding levels for these fiscal years--by program or capacity, and what will the readiness impacts be for fiscal year 2016, should sequestration…

Thank you to you and your folks, working with New York City's district attorney and the local law enforcement authorities there in New York, for doing everything possible to follow up on the detection of the fraud.

But it is just not true. You don't know. You don't know.

Remember, American workers pay for Social Security and Social Security Disability Insurance.

But to say that this is the fault of Social Security is to blame the wrong people who are working every day.

I am here to speak in opposition to the offset in Ayotte amendment No. 2603. The bipartisan budget that passed in December included a Republican provision that changed the annual cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for military retirees…

50 years ago today President Johnson declared a war on poverty. He said: Very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give citizens a fair chance to develop…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 454 Resolved, That the following named Member be and is hereby elected to…

It is wonderful to see such a diverse group of nominees and to have all from one State.

I would like to echo acknowledging the diversity that is represented in our nominees this morning.

The general proposition in our country is that people should have the right to access our courts to seek redress and justice.

I am not against arbitration clauses per se, but when they go this far basically to trump federal law, I think that we need to address the situation.

Perhaps we need to make sure, because I am holding letters from over 200 major domestic and foreign institutional investors who are very concerned that the SEC has not promulgated a rule that would disallow forced arbitration clauses in…

A class action ban is inherently not consumer friendly, because a consumer cannot bring a collective claim when there is a class action waiver.

With this kind of a ruling, private entities can trump federal law.

There is not a single Senator here who does not acknowledge the seriousness of sexual assault in the military and that we must do something to prevent and prosecute these crimes. Yes, there are differences of opinion as to what we need to…