Welcome, Judge McHugh, and congratulations on your nomination.

Thank you, Senator Lee, for those kind words, although there seemed to be a lot of violence in them.

Access to justice is a critical issue, and some of the most gratifying cases that I have worked on are cases in which I represented people who did not have enough money to afford their own lawyer.

There's long been bipartisan support for transportation issues.

I view this whole thing as the way we get the economy going.

I can't think of a better person to lead this subcommittee.

I think people are just going to have to start thinking of this differently, that it's not a--if that's a tax increase, I don't know what is, when the industry that uses the infrastructure wants to pay a higher fee so that they can have…

Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013. I believe the beneficial role that energy efficiency improvements can have for consumers and also for industrial competitiveness often…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Maryland for her beautiful remarks on behalf of her constituents and their families. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families. I also thank her for her thoughts on some of the policy…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the heroic efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Velazquez Rascon of the United States Army. Lieutenant Rascon was a medic with the 173rd Airborne and was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary…

I will stand at the VA as your staunchest supporter, but your harshest critic when the time comes to get that.

I am a big fan of looking at 2-year colleges as a platform, a pathway, and not a ceiling.

The law isn't supposed to enable unions to organize every workplace. And the law isn't designed to help employers obstruct union representation.

college affordability has been a focus of mine since I got to the Senate.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding the time and for introducing this important legislation. Mr. Speaker, I rise in very strong support today of H.R. 3092, the E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Missing Children's Assistance…

Do any of the witnesses think that the President will sign a bill, or the Senate will pass a bill that either defunds Obamacare or delays the funding of Obamacare?

We are on this cusp of opportunity, and I don't want us to go backward by sending the economy into a downward spiral.

We think this has to be done in terms of the long-term debt, but the debt ceiling is not the place to play games.