Mr. President, I want to thank our majority whip again for telling it like it is and what is happening with health care in America today. We have come too far to turn back. We have made tremendous changes in the way people are going to…

Mr. President, I want to take the time this morning to talk about an issue that has been brewing for a long time and is going to come to a head in the Senate sometime in the next several days, I hope, and it is one which compels us to do…

I ask unanimous consent for another 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the Senator for allowing me a few more minutes. The point being, if we look at all tipped workers in States with a $2.13 minimum wage, the poverty rate is 16.1 percent. Where a State has a minimum wage the same for tipped and not…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Diana Hodges and Benjamin Rowland, interns from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session. The PRESIDING…

Mr. President, I intend to object to any unanimous consent request at the present time relating to the nomination of Katherine M. O'Regan to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Every year, the Department of Housing…

Mr. President, I intend to object to any unanimous consent request at the present time relating to the nomination of Carolyn Hessler Radelet to be the Director of the Peace Corps. I will object because I am inquiring into the circumstances…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet on April 1, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Access to…

I introduced the Protect Student Borrowers Act (S. 1873) with Senators Durbin and Warren.

I believe that we need to make college more affordable for all Americans.

My Partnerships for Affordability and Student Success Act (S. 1874) would reinvigorate the Federal-State partnership in helping low-and moderate-income students afford college.

I have a bill in, which is S. 546, the Smarter Borrowing Act, to strengthen loan counseling.

It's important to take a moment to re-state the importance of that action and the real impact it has had on students and families.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be…

I appreciate the majority leader yielding. It has been a tradition in the U.S. Senate--usually this time of the year, when various veterans organizations come to Washington, DC, to testify for their membership before Congress about issues…

So disruption would be the answer, the effect on the consumer that I was kind of concentrating my question on.

I am done with my presentation today, but I will have questions for each of you, and quite a few questions for DISH, if you would be willing to answer them in writing.

Now it is more general.