Over 60 percent of people with disabilities who can work and want to work are not employed.

While I am optimistic that our amendments to the Rehabilitation Act, contained in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014...

Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Alexander and myself, I do object to the unanimous consent request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

Mr. President, I will take about 3 minutes, and I would like to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for being a gentleman and letting me have a few minutes to express myself before he gives his own expression of support for this bill. First…

I look forward to working with Senator Alexander to move these nominees quickly so they can get to work ensuring fairness and equal opportunity for every American worker.

Throughout my career, I have been guided by the vision of an America that is compassionate, just, and inclusive, a society where the government provides a ladder, or sometimes a ramp, of opportunity that will give all people equal access…

These important guarantees, however, are not self-enforcing. They're only as strong as the agency charged with enforcing them, and that's the EEOC.

Too many employment decisions are based on insidious stereotypes and prejudices rather than an employee's talent, ability, and qualifications.

Mr. President, over the past few years we have seen remarkable progress in one of the defining civil rights issues of our era--ensuring that all lawfully married couples are treated equally under the law. In 2011, when I chaired the first…

Mr. President, more than 30 years ago, in the midst of Guatemala's civil war, the construction of a large hydroelectric dam on the Chixoy River resulted in destruction of 33 indigenous Mayan communities and the massacres of more than 400…

Mr. President, a common reality that permeates the complex and colorful history of Latin America is large numbers of landless, impoverished people and small elites who control the majority of the land and the country's wealth, often…

I withhold that request. I yield back my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair recognizes the Senator from Georgia, Mr. Isakson.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time be yielded back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, all time is yielded back.

Mr. President, as we return from recess for the remaining days of the 113th Congress, I begin by congratulating my friend Senator Chuck Grassley who will become chairman of the Judiciary Committee beginning in the 114th Congress. We have a…

Left New Hampshire for Turnberry in Scotland, which I am renovating. This place is incredible! @TrumpTurnberry

I really wants the president to wait until Congress is done with funding the government before he even deals with this.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be able to show a device in the course of my presentation about exploding airbags. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, there has been quite a bit in the press about defective exploding airbags. This is a part of a steering wheel with the airbag deployed. In the steering wheel, the driver would be like this with their hands on the steering…