It is time to get back those jobs.

These international tourists spend an average of $4,000 to $5,000 a year.

Tourism and travel are a huge part of the Minnesota economy, generating $11.3 billion in sales and supporting over 200,000 jobs.

Thank you very much, Senator Schumer.

It is really important to remember that this is about the owner of a small flower shop in Knoxville, or it is the hotel worker who has their first job out of college in Minneapolis.

I think it is important that security is front and center.

Madam President, I would like to associate myself with the words of the Senator from California for the tremendous work she did on the Transportation bill, which is a bipartisan bill that passed overwhelmingly in the Senate…

I rise to introduce the Rural Energy for America Program Reauthorization Act, along with my friend Senator Harkin from Iowa. Farmers and rural businesses form the backbone of this country, and rural communities are particularly crucial to…

Madam President, I would like to discuss the votes that we have taken over the last few days. Tuesday, along with 54 of my colleagues, I voted in support of the INVEST In America Act as a substitute for H.R. 3606. In fact, I was an…

I thank the Chair and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska.

Madam President, I would like to join many of my colleagues who are each talking a little bit about the affordable care act, which celebrates its second anniversary of being signed into law by the President tomorrow. Even though the law…

Mr. President, I rise today also to pay tribute to my colleague, the senior Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski. As everyone has said, this is a landmark, this is a milestone: the longest serving woman Senator and Member of Congress in…

A Nation that cannot care for those and the widows who sacrificed so much is just not financially broke, they are morally broke.

If we're telling our widows that we simply can't fix the DIC, because you won't find anyone who will tell you this makes any moral sense whatsoever.

FRA appreciates the increased burial plot allowance from $300 to $700 effective October 1, 2011.

Ending homelessness among Veterans is a top priority for the President, VA Secretary Shinseki, many other federal agencies and this Association.

We greatly appreciate Senator Mark Pryor's leadership for introducing a Senate companion measure, S. 491, the 'Honor American's Guard-Reserve Retirees.'

MOAA recommends the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs approve the 'Honor America's Guard and Reserve Retirees Act'.