Well, I have sat on the Judiciary Committee for eight years. I sat through slavery reparation hearings that were held by...
I voted for a bill that put a $100 million cap on this thing.
In December 2010 U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Tom Harkin, and Jeff Bingaman requested an independent study from the National...
We have got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress....
Well, I've sat on the judiciary committee for eight years. I sat through slavery reparation hearings that were held by C...
Figure this out, Madam Speaker, we have a very, very urban Senator Barack Obama, who has decided he's going to run for p...
We've got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States congress. T...
I offered the legislation, but I had an ally named Helen Blank, who really made all the difference in the world years ag...
Do you think giving workers that kind of information would, No. 1, encourage retirement savings?
The average benefit is about $14,000--less than a minimum wage income--and Social Security provides more than half the i...
It is time for our Nation to face the retirement crisis head-on.
The most important thing I can say is that cutting Social Security benefits in this context would be disastrous.
The system of relying on tax subsidies to expand the employer-based retirement system has proven a failure.
There is no rationale for providing a larger tax break to a millionaire than to a Wal-Mart cashier for the same dollar c...
Most Americans are making what you make--$35,000, $40,000, $45,000, $50,000, $55,000 a year. That is the middle class of...
You should both be commended for introducing S. Res. 664, your Sense of the Senate Resolution opposing any benefit cuts.
I am going to count on Senator Sanders to be one of our lead persons in our hearings going into next year.
Each year of raising the retirement age is a 6.5 percent cut in benefits that are already very modest.
