This free flow across borders that has been so healthy and been necessary for the growth of this kind of communication would be disrupted.

I thank both the Senator from Oregon and the Senator from Wisconsin for working with me and look forward, as this process goes on, to making sure the provisions in the legislation work for employers as well as for employees. I appreciate…

after weeks of budgetary wrangling and a government shutdown that had the country on edge, last week marked the beginning of the bicameral budget conference. I commend my colleagues who are meeting on the issue and are trying to reconcile…

I appreciate the work the Senator from Oregon did with my office this week to try to arrive at language we could put into an amendment. We were not able to get that amendment. When I voted for ENDA in the House in 2007, as the Senator…

I look forward to the continuation of the process that Congress created to make changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

We will not be hearing reports of United States special forces risking their lives again in Somalia.

United States interests continue to be threatened in Somalia.

The security situation and the threat posed by al-Shabaab also need to be assessed.

We need to make sure that that leads to something positive.

I know this is not a town that has ever been known for having a long memory. In fact, the recent warning bells rung about our deficits and our debt have predictably faded into the background with all of the attention on the rocky start to…

I came to the floor to urge my colleagues to do everything we can to ensure that ObamaCare is delayed, guaranteeing the least- harmful pass forward for patients, providers, and taxpayers. We all have stories from our home States that…

as we debate legislation to keep the government running, we should not be debating a budget number that is higher than the Budget Control Act asks for. Frankly, this is a statement that should not have to be said here on the Senate floor…