Obviously, we need to do something about this.

We have to deal with the problems that exist today before we look at how we are going to deal with multiemployer plans moving forward.

People across the United States will not allow that to happen.

I remember hearing people across the horseshoe from me critical of these auto workers who had all these legacy costs.

Madam President, last month I came to the floor--in fact, I come to the floor just about every month--to highlight the great work being done by the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security. Last month I focused on the folks who…

KOPPA would roll back MPRA's pension-cut provisions, while providing funding to troubled multiemployer plans.

Thank you for supporting the Keep Our Pension Promises Act, which would solve the whole problem of underfunded multiemployer plans.

Madam President, this is a day-night double header. That was the day game, and what I want to do now is focus on the second half of the story as long as time will allow me to do that. As the Presiding Officer knows, I come from the State…

Mr. President, today I wish to recognize the tragic deaths of two fellow Marylanders. Senior Deputy Patrick Dailey and Senior Deputy Mark Logsdon of the Harford County Sheriff's Office were killed in the line of duty on February 10. I join…

I close just begging, urging, imploring, and beseeching my colleagues on the Republican side to move forward on the Supreme Court nominee. We have not had a Supreme Court vacancy for as long as a year since the Civil War because we were at…

A woman in New Carlisle wrote to me saying: There was a time when I could not find full-time employment, I did not have health insurance, and I also was not eligible for any assistance from the government. My husband and I were newly…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, this week the Supreme Court--which is lacking a ninth Justice for the foreseeable future for reasons that most of the American public doesn't understand since my fellow Senators--my Republican colleagues--simply refuse to…

Madam President, in the last 2 minutes I would like to say a few more words about the Supreme Court vacancy. Four former U.S. attorneys from Ohio, Washington State, California, and Virginia published an op-ed that went around the country…

I would like to go to Ethiopia, if I could, talk about El Nino, talk about this historic impact it is having in Ethiopia.

The article talked about how it was going to intensify regional conflicts as they fought over limited resources.

Yes, the problems in Sub-Saharan Africa were actually the first problems, first areas kind of identified as the problem area for climate change.

This is clearly an exacerbated form of the climate change impacts that we are seeing.