I'm retiring from the Senate but not from the fight.

last year, only 17.6 percent of persons with disabilities had jobs, compared to 64 percent of people without a disability.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Both Senator Alexander and I will have opening statements.

Mayor de Blasio of New York now has committed--and the city council moved that 50 percent of all taxicabs in New York City will be fully accessible by 2020.

I really do believe that Congress needs to address these concerns.

I wish to thank Chairman Harkin for his superlative service to the State of Iowa and to our Nation for more than four decades.

Good morning, everyone. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Scott Robertson, a fellow with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session, and that Brent Becker and Ben Strube…

Mr. President, as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the pension community approached me with their concerns that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation was interpreting section 4062(e) of the Employee…

Mr. President, 24 years ago, on July 26, 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush, in a glorious sun-filled day on the White House lawn, attended by more people than had ever attended a bill signing in the history of our…

I have been very active in trying to ensure that the Military Lending Act truly protects our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Do you think we should broaden the rules so that we actually protect service men and women?

Today I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the 100th birthday and extraordinary contributions of former Congressman Don Edwards. Don was born on January 6, 1915, in San Jose, CA, where he attended public schools and graduated from…

ISIL has to be defeated, plain and simple, end of story. Has to be.

I will not commit our troops to fighting another ground war in Iraq or in Syria.

We are convinced beyond any doubt that we do have the legal authority to proceed now.

we are adhering to U.S. law, passed by Congress with respect to export-import