This is about making sure you succeed, because when you succeed, our country succeeds.

I won't be satisfied until everybody can find a job that pays a living wage and allows them either to stay in the middle class, but also creates those ladders of opportunity into the middle class.

Today, we reflect on their sacrifice, and we rededicate ourselves to protecting the health, safety, and dignity of every worker.

The economy posted its 11th straight quarter of positive growth.

Taking action to stop the doubling of these rates will save students $1,000, on average, over the life of their loans.

When women make less than men for the same work, that hurts families who have to get by with less.

I promise you we'll finish what we started in 2008.

You've performed heroically in some of the most dangerous places on Earth.

You have worn the uniform with honor.

This country exists because generations of Americans worked together and looked out for one other.

the measures proposed in the Park Service plan represent the most extreme tools available for making fishery management modifications to Biscayne National Park, ignoring alternative ways to achieve the desired resource improvements without…

Mr. President, I am pleased to be here to join those of my colleagues who are urging that we come together this afternoon, and I am pleased we are going to see votes on the Violence Against Women Act to reauthorize the legislation as it…

Madam President, I rise to join my colleagues in calling for passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. I am disheartened that in the last several months petty, partisan gamesmanship has held up this legislation. Since VAWA…

This amendment is straightforward. It would require the inspector general of the intelligence community to include a list of federal agencies and departments receiving information shared with the government in the report already required…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 12, after line 18, insert the following new subparagraph: ``(E) a list of the department or agency…

I just want to say I support the legislation in the underlying bill, and I would urge support for this amendment as well, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman…

Mr. President, I rise today in strong support of The Violence Against Women Act. This consequential measure reauthorizes a landmark federal law and, once the Senate has finished a free and open debate including a full range of amendments…

Please join me in welcoming my exceptional guests and their family members or guardians who have accompanied them to the U.S. Senate. So, again, I thank my Senate colleagues for giving me this opportunity. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…