I introduced the Save More Tomorrow Act, which will encourage Federal employees to add to their retirement savings.

I want to commend the Departments of our witnesses for your increased efforts for protecting our Nation against terrorist attacks.

It has been good leadership. It has been a great strategic plan.

We have worked with you, Senator Akaka, to craft the Federal Supervisor Training Act.

Your advocacy on behalf of Federal employees, from your efforts to ensure fair pay and benefits to your actions to protect collective bargaining rights, will be truly missed.

I want to join all Americans in mourning the loss of the four brave and dedicated American public servants who died as a result of what we consider senseless attacks in Libya last week.

as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, I am introducing legislation to make technical corrections to the National Native American Veterans' Memorial Act of 1994. The 1994 Act honors the profound contributions of Native Veterans by…

Thank you so much for having Mrs. Holy--Holly Petraeus come to Hawaii.

the negative impacts of the Carcieri decision and how I feel, it has been staggering.

I was disappointed, of course, because of the increase, to learn the number of unbanked households increased by more than 800,000.

I must say that in its first year, the CFPB, the Bureau, has made great, great strides in educating, empowering, and also protecting our consumers in the financial marketplace.

one of my top priorities is passing a clean, a clean Carcieri fix this session.

I have been working with the Indian Tribes and many Tribal communities are concerned about the financial literacy and financial empowerment of their Tribal members.

What I have been trying to do is to reduce the numbers of unbanked and underbanked and have more of them work with the institutions.

I rise in memory of an unspeakable tragedy that shook our great Nation free of the belief that we are an untouchable force in the modern world, 11 years ago today. Eleven years ago today an unspeakable tragedy shook our great Nation free…

So as you work through the 2014 budget, you have already looked at the impact of the caps with the caps in place?

But you do know that under the BCA [Budget Control Act], there are going to be caps, and the caps are not--well, they don't look like you are going to be able to recoup any of this.

I would like to announce that the Committee on Indian Affairs will meet during the session of the Senate on September 13, 2012, in room SD-628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, at 2:15 p.m., to conduct a business meeting to consider…