Please know that Democrats are committed to full funding for the SEC because the Commission provides the first line of protection for investors.

I am just pleased to learn from my staff that our companies are doing a better job of reporting, that--and it is working, and that from the first report to the second report, we see a marked improvement.

And we believe that, of course, the entire continent has been exploited for far too long and that the people have not benefited from the rich resources in many of the parts of the continent.

I served on the conference committee of Dodd-Frank, and I worked with Barney Frank on this issue.

We trained you in California.

So that motivates me to be on the side of the least of these.

I will never forget that picture.

if you have the flexibility, we have to stop putting these grandmothers out of these units...

If we would fund transportation by the Federal Government in a reasonable way, we could rebuild our roads and our streets.

I want to close the wealth gap, and I have come to understand very clearly that it is not simply through wages.

We are a long way from replacing public housing in New Orleans, which is what I so staunchly advocated for post-Katrina.