What I love about this panel here today is that it represents the best of what we hope our Ambassadors will be.

I think the answer is it is not. It is actually a time to be more engaged.

when the history books are written about those who fought hardest against poverty, who stood up for those with no voice, with very little power and an increasingly unfair economy, LBJ and his war on poverty will be a few chapters in that…

I hope we will confirm Janet Yellen later today. I come to the floor for a few minutes to do what I have done most weeks since the failure of this Senate to pass commonsense gun legislation in the spring of 2013, to talk about the number…

I thank my good friend, the senior Senator from Connecticut. Our understanding is that many States require insurers to check their policies against the master list on an ongoing basis in order to ensure they have accurate information about…

I come to the floor for a few minutes, as I have most weeks, to mark a new number. That number is 11,584--the number of gun deaths America has experienced over the last year, since December 14 of last year. That date is burned in the…

I do not mean to sound pessimistic about TTIP.

if we want more transparency around these trade agreements or we want more public debate, we should probably think about renaming them.

I remain optimistic that a basic TPP deal can be reached by the time of President Obama's planned trip to Asia next April.

TTIP is an effort between the United States and Europe to gang up on the developing world.

this Saturday we are going to mark the 1- year anniversary of the shooting in Sandy Hook, CT, in which 20 little 6- and 7-year-old boys and girls lost their lives, as well as 6 adults who worked in that school who were charged with…

I ask unanimous consent that after I finish speaking, Senator Blumenthal be allowed to speak. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., and that the time during the recess count postcloture on the Watt nomination with the time equally divided in the usual form. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there…

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Undetectable Firearms Act

we are about to hit the 1-year mark since the tragic shooting in Sandy Hook, CT, which took the lives of 20 little boys and girls, 6- and 7-year-olds, and 6 of their educators who cared for them. It should be a source of great…

I thank the Senator from California for telling the stories of people in California, which are not unlike the stories in Connecticut--an exchange that is working, a flood of people signing up way above expectations from where we originally…

If Yanukovych walks away from this summit without an agreement, how does he explain this to the people of the Ukraine?

President Yanukovych is 'a' President of Ukraine. He will be a transitional figure.

reports are emerging of another school shooting today. Early reports out of Pittsburgh are that three people have been shot at a high school. The police right now are searching for the shooter in the woods surrounding the high school. We…

President Yanukovych has made it pretty clear for a long time that he sees his legacy as making Ukraine permanently independent.

We have been very clear with respect to what Yanukovych needs to do with respect to Tymoshenko.

this is about a broader commitment on behalf of the Ukrainians to end a practice of selective political prosecutions.

If the Ukraine fails to sign in Vilnius, might probably be President Yanukovych himself.

The United States can and should tell the Russian authorities that such a step would be impermissible.

Our tactics start to look somewhat similar to the tactics that the Russians are using.