We finally got it together, and the one part that I've worked on is upgrading the rehab act to provide for the kind of training and skills upgrading for people with disabilities when they're young.

The board, like every federal agency, Congressman, comes to this body and asks for resources. If these resources are being diverted to these policy efforts and not, as I mentioned, to addressing their current case load, which is…

I submit not.

Excellent question. Up to 4,000 could come back. That is just over the last 20 years of board decisions. They would be void.

Mr. President, today I want to recognize an exceptional local leader in Iowa who has used her experience and expertise to help communities across America to become more resilient. Back home, we know Linda Langston as an effective and…

Mr. President, I would like to take a few moments to recognize an innovative effort aimed at improving youth nutrition that took place at Muscatine High School in Iowa. Communities across the country are focusing on ways to build health…

Just in the last few months, Congressman, this board is proposing in its general counsel to consider changing over 100 years--maybe up to 130 years of precedent in addition to changing over 30 or 40 years of established procedure and…

I think transparency brings accountability.

I have long been concerned that colleges and universities are not doing enough with their endowments to assist students with financial needs.

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to mark-up S. 2449…

Mr. Chairman, simply, this amendment says, as the gentlelady read, ``None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to transfer weapons to the Palestinian Authority.'' I would like to express why I brought this amendment. I take…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. _. None of the funds made…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on June 24, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Moving Toward…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on June 24, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Falling Through…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2486 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

For the third time in a couple weeks, I want to speak about one of the nominees we are going to be voting on today. That nominee is Peter Kadzik. He has been nominated to the Department of Justice's Office of Legislative Affairs. He would…

Just last week the majority leader gave his view that tax extenders as an issue is dead in the Senate until the lameduck session. I presume that means we will have a lameduck session. The majority leader blames this on Republicans, the…

Mr. President, today, June 12, 2014, is the day set aside by the International Labor Organization to bring attention to the tragic predicament of millions of children across the globe who continue to be trapped in forced and abusive labor…