Mr. President, as Veterans Day 2013 approaches next Monday, I ask that in honoring the brave men and women who have served our Nation, we in Congress honor them in ways that are meaningful and help them return to civilian life after they…

Mr. President, I rise to pay tribute to a wonderful man, Ivey Lee Armstrong, Sr., who died last month. He was just 62. He worked for nearly 30 years cooking and preparing delicious food in the Senate Carryout. The entire Senate community…

Mr. President, today the Senate is voting on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act--a bill that I am proud to cosponsor. Americans believe that hard-working people should be rewarded for their efforts and commended for their skills. Yet…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Budget

Mr. President, what is the pending business before the Senate? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are on the motion to proceed to S. 815.

Mr. President, I come to the floor to speak about how we can avoid another shutdown of our government and also, even more important, avoid another shutdown or slowdown of our economy. That is how we in the Congress, both sides of the…

I urge you to monitor the progress made on the State exchanges, because we want to make sure that assistance is available to those who have been disadvantaged.

I hope after this that my colleagues will work in their States to help this work for the American people.

I am convinced that the fundamentals of the Affordable Care Act are sound.

We now have stability in the market, and that is due to the Affordable Care Act.

I share the level of disappointment of every member of this committee as to how the website shopping and enrollment functions have performed since October 1st.

What steps have you taken to protect those who may have suffered from the delay in getting the website working?

Madam President, I rise today to remember those who perished and suffered during Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, 75 years ago on November 9 and 10 in Germany, German-occupied Austria, and German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Earlier…

Mr. President, the legislation that is currently pending before this body, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, S. 815, provides a historic opportunity for us to advance civil rights in this country and end employment discrimination…

Mr. President, today I rise to introduce bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Education, a panel that provides much needed assistance to our Nation's veterans by advising the Secretary of Veterans…

Do you think you're going to restore the confidence in this plan?

I think it's very confusing about where you go.

What I worry about is that there's such a crisis of confidence that people won't enroll.