Not only is it the right thing to do to allow people to have a minimal number of days in which they are paid to stay home when they're sick, but it's also a pretty good business practice to make sure that you don't have really sick people…

It's not. It's an issue just as much for dads as well.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I think that we have seen many banks focus too much on profit maximization in the short term, rather than looking at the needs of the communities where they do extract tremendous profits.

I think public policy has to hold banks accountable to staying in these communities and reinvesting in them.

I think they would find that there are ways to prudently structure financing.

We also know that when there is a bank in a community, access to business financing is more likely to occur.

I don't think that we yet have gotten to the place as a Nation where we can abandon the federal responsibility to make sure that we always maintain a floor.

When you're talking about accountability, we need to be able to assess how schools are performing, and that involves understanding how students do after they graduate.

While I share all of her concerns about Corinthian College, let me just broaden out the problem...

the number one job we have, as Senator Murphy said earlier, is getting prices right.

As we look to the ways in which countries would comply with a new global agreement on carbon emissions, efficiency is the quickest and easiest way to get there.

This is a crisis waiting to happen, a country with simmering instability to begin with, a bursting population.

Thank you, Mr. President. Let me join my friend Senator Crapo in congratulating the leadership on both the Republican and Democratic side and the leadership on the banking committee for bringing this bill before us this morning. It is…

we are entering into a new era in which five men in the Supreme Court are going to get to make the decisions about what kind of health care you get as a matter of right, living under the protection of the laws of the United States, and…

We have had a string of these Grandparent Scams in Connecticut, along our shoreline, which is the reason that I have had some interest in this issue over the past several months.

Given the fact that you are only prosecuting where you see volume, given your limited resources, it seems like an imperative to make sure that local law enforcement is communicating up the chain to these databases and to the FBI, to the…

I know we have some other colleagues on the way down to the floor to speak, so I will be brief. I just want to join Senator Blumenthal and thank him for his tremendous leadership, as he noted, going back to his days as Connecticut's…

It is really hard for us to represent our Nation's interests if we do not have an ambassador on the ground.

aligning U.S. and European energy policies is of renewed strategic importance

I do think, and I hope that you will point out, the curious position that Europe continues to be in, which is to ask vociferously and aggressively for U.S. shale gas and then be totally unwilling to develop their own resources.

We need an Ambassador to Romania. This is a country that has great reason to feel imperiled by Russian aggression.

last week Target stores announced that they were going to initiate a new policy in their stores across the country. They were going to politely ask all of their consumers to refrain from bringing guns inside their stores. This is a picture…

I guess if the measurement is levels of testosterone and bravado, he is winning.

I hope that you'll keep open the possibility of having a specific standard for the transfer of custody of adopted children.