It was a national security issue.

Yet we are only one of four countries left that I can identify in the world that doesn't provide that basic right, it seems to me.

There was incredible opposition to the Childcare Development Block Grant program when Orrin Hatch and I wrote it.

We are now trying to get paid leave because, obviously, that is a burden.

Every dollar we invest in early childhood development saves $10.

The standard industry practice is to prepare the financing documents so that the customer is not alerted in any manner that the person with whom he is dealing has the ability to control the customer's price of credit. This allows the…

9.1 million children on a yearly average were getting assistance through the welfare system.

I wish to take a few minutes to express my views on the bill overall and also to express my appreciation to an awful lot of people who worked very hard on this legislation over the last year and a half, not just over the last 4 weeks this…

We haven't reauthorized it since 1996.

I hope you are. Kit Bond, who is retiring this year, and Dan Coats, who sat on this committee and is running for the Senate again, were my partners when I wrote the Family and Medical Leave Act.

let me begin by saying that Sam Brownback and I are good friends. We have a different point of view in this matter. But that in no way at all should be reflected in our relationship with each other, as we have served together for many…

Today, it is 3.3 million children, 20 percent of children in poverty.

First of all, the Budget Committee, like all authorizing committees, has the option, at the outset, when the budget resolution is considered, to set aside a reserve fund in anticipation of some piece of legislation coming along that may…

I believe point of the Senator from Maine is well taken. Wholesalers and manufacturers do not provide any products to consumers for their personal, family, or household use, let alone consumer financial products or services. Thus…

I believe it would be appropriate for the SEC to take the opportunity presented by the rulemakings under this legislation, to consider whether to include State and local government bodies within those definitions.

This is a very important proposal--one that we have not adopted. It is in the House bill. I told my friend I would be anxious to pursue the idea he has incorporated because, obviously, this is subject matter that has probably evoked more…

it is my understanding that one of the reasons for providing the Federal Reserve Board, and, eventually, the bureau, with authority to provide exemptions under paragraph (7) of this new section 129(l) of the Truth in Lending Act, is to…

The SEC certainly has existing authority to add State and local governments to the definitions of ``accredited investor'' and ``qualified institutional buyer'' under its Securities Act rules.

First, no one knows real estate like Johnny Isakson. I have had the privilege of working with the Senator from Georgia over the last year or so on a couple of proposals, one of which I think made a big difference. That was the $8,000 tax…

I commend the Senator from Rhode Island for his passionate and persistent advocacy for his amendment. He has been extremely eloquent. However, I have to oppose the Senator's amendment. I do it with some reluctance. Nobody has been more…

the gentleman is correct; the purpose of the Bureau of Consumer Protection is to protect consumers and not to address disputes between businesses over the terms of their business relationships.

I rise to further discuss the reasons for my votes against two amendments relating to credit rating agencies, amendment No. 3991 creating a new credit rating agency board and amendment No. 3774 which eliminates references to requiring…

However, despite these important first steps, I have a series of fundamental questions...

The United States Government has provided more than $1 billion in humanitarian funding for Haiti...

We have an obligation to do our part, that the international efforts are effective, that it's not just about the dollars we put in, but whether the lives of the Haitian people are changed.