I certainly look at that $1.8 trillion regulatory burden--I come from a manufacturing background--to understand how harmful it can be.

I have proposed things like a Sunset Committee, whose only mandate would be to reduce--identify and actually eliminate laws that are harmful or no longer useful.

I have not found in my short time here that the Federal Government is particularly good at measuring the intended results of what they are trying to accomplish.

I guess there must be an Office of Ozone Regulation in EPA and they must be sitting around their office going, well, now what do we do?

I would tend more toward one in and about 10 out.

One of the valuable things that retrospective review could accomplish would be to identify rules that are having consequences other than those that were intended and might be having costs that are much higher than were anticipated.

It is extremely important, not only to businesses, but, again, any stakeholder, that they are listened to very carefully.

This June, as we celebrate LGBT Pride Month, LGBT Americans have much to celebrate. Every day this country moves closer and closer towards embracing full equality for all of its citizens. And yet the path to equality and justice saw a…

I love it when people agree on things. And it looks like we're all agreeing on: we need more spectrum.

So, the short answer is: government.

Do you know if their names and whatever relevant data we know of has been entered in the State Department watch list?

Now, the public summary of your audit indicates that a U.S. Marshals inspector was concerned that a witness was collecting information from militant Muslim groups, but that information was not being shared with the FBI for at least 2…

It is time to welcome young children who can feel pain into the human family, and this bill at least will do just that.

Madam President, as I make my first remarks on the Senate floor, I have the honor of occupying the same Senate seat, and in fact occupying the very Senate desk, once used by Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. ``Fighting Bob LaFollette,'' as…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for as much time as I may consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Thank you, Representative Cartwright. And thank you for your leadership on the Truth in Tuition bill. How apropos to be H.R. 2020, to give a good direct vision on the reality of costs in higher education. I can say one thing from being a…

Thank you very much, Representative Ellison. Your leadership for many years in this body has been well appreciated. I want to thank you for bringing back really the central theme of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. When we had a…

Thank you, Representative Jeffries, for your leadership on this issue and for your bill, which I am very proud to be a cosponsor of. I think that it's fair to say that college students and aspiring college students, not just in New York…