Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

Washington must respond to the ongoing genocide and the ongoing failure to implement the CPA with consistency and strong consequences.

Madam Speaker, the global economy is increasingly interconnected. The current economic crisis may have begun in the United States, but it rapidly spread throughout the world. Now as we stand on the cusp of a sustained economic recovery, we…

Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 256, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session for the purpose of consideration of Calendar Nos. 500, Julia Reiskin, and 501, Gloria Valencia-Weber, both to be members of the Legal Services Corporation…

Once again, Mr. President, I appreciate the courtesy of the Senator from Oklahoma and the leadership of the Senator from Missouri. We are going to continue to raise this issue, and with the same kind of relentlessness the Senator from…

Mr. President, first, let me thank my colleagues for being here this morning. I am pleased to join this effort. I want to particularly thank my colleague from Missouri, who has been a relentless voice on opening up and bringing a little…

Mr. President, I rise in opposition to both the second- degree amendment and the initial Brown-Kaufman amendment. I understand their goals. I believe the chairman's bill addresses those goals. We have 10 percent total liabilities in the…

Madam President, I rise to speak very briefly, following the comments of my colleague from South Carolina on the pending amendment that I know has received broad bipartisan support. I also wish to comment on what happened in the market…

I will wrap up very quickly. We saw today, for example, in a matter of a moment or two, Procter & Gamble--one of America's premier companies--fall from $60 to $39. We saw another company fall from around $30 to a penny stock. This was not…

As we sort through how we try to prevent this, we also have got to sort through to make sure that everybody is operating on a level playing field.

The President has pledged $3.7 billion for STEM education in the budget, including $1 billion for K-12 STEM education.

Mr. President, let me follow on my colleague's comments. He is my colleague and my friend and my partner for the last year. I think we've both, as former business guys, said this is not an issue that should be partisan. We need to check…

I want to continue a little bit along the line of Senator Bunning. I also had some concerns about the arbitrariness of what the standards are of breaking trades, but you have got to draw a line somewhere.

But then to have this action, whether it was technology-driven, whether it was a result of the overall actions of the dramatic increase of high-frequency trading, is something that I hope we will be able to get to in this hearing today.

I think we all saw recently, on May 6th, how challenging the merging of the advance of technology, high-frequency trading, and some of the results of perhaps not having totally in place all of the appropriate circuit breaker, stopgaps, and…

I definitely recall, you know, getting panicked calls from some of the folks who manage my investments to say, you know, we do not know what is happening, and to see this $1 trillion loss.

I think there is also a bigger problem about market trust here.