Mr. President, today I wish to recognize the need to protect the safety and health of older Americans from hazards posed by consumer products. Since its inception in 1972, the Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC has been tasked with…

I think Secretary Pritzker knows what she is doing in seeking him to be one of the leadership of her team.

Mr. President, I want to speak on behalf of Sylvia Mathews Burwell. We have had a lot of commentary out here that she has shown her capability in her time as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, and she is going to have a…

A hurricane approaches, knocks out the power. Somebody is in dire straits in their home, and they need to make a 911 call.

Well, you have got a lot of educating to do, if it is anything like smoke detectors and the batteries in the smoke detectors.

Mr. President, May is Older Americans Month, and I am pleased to submit a resolution recognizing the importance of our seniors with my colleagues, Senators Collins and Sanders. As of 2012, there were more than 43 million Americans aged 65…

Madam President, I am here to speak in support of the conference report for the Water Resources Reform and Development Act or WRRDA. I congratulate Senator Boxer and Senator Vitter for their combined leadership and their working together…

So the chained CPI would take it exactly the other way?

So I approve of a mandatory tier. I think it is much better to do it at a Federal level.

What makes Social Security great is that virtually every worker pays into it, but a worker has to hope that his employer offers a retirement plan.

Under the present system, if you delay in taking Social Security, you increase the lifetime benefit by 8 percent for every year that you delay.