It is also our obligation to make sure that we are worthy of their valor.

I have often said is not good enough for us at the time of a military engagement to pray for veterans.

We want to make sure that they are aware of what they are entitled to.

Madam President, before we vote on the Barron nomination, I want my colleagues to know the White House continues to keep the Senate in the dark. Yesterday I called upon the White House to state once and for all whether it has provided to…

I thank you and your organization for helping us and protecting the American people from so many different threats.

How valuable is Section 702 to the FBI's counterterrorism mission? And do you have any concerns about whether it is legal and constitutional?

I told the Attorney General in January when he appeared for oversight without having responses to the previous year's hearing questions that that is not acceptable.

I wish I could say that all of those unanswered issues have been fully dealt with, but they have not.

Mr. President, I wish to speak about Harvard law professor David Barron's nomination to the First Circuit. I will do so by addressing some aspects of Professor Barron's record I find particularly troubling. At the end of the day, I believe…

I am hoping that you could commit that the FBI will stop stonewalling the Inspector General.

Will you make sure that the FBI fully cooperates with any IG review and that there is no further retaliation as a result of these allegations?

I think that that is extraordinary power that I am not sure many Americans understand, and it creates concerns.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would increase yearly earnings to $19,777.

The Healthy Families Act, introduced by Senator Harkin, would allow workers to earn paid sick days.

It seems to me that we need to have some societal type agreements that put some floors underneath this.

I think we have a responsibility as a Federal Government to respond to a national, I think, crisis that we have in families, especially with women and single mothers and single parents in this country.

I want to correct this, though. CBO did not do their own study.

Raising the minimum wage, as proposed by Sen. Harkin, would give 15.4 million women a raise.