The Healthy Families Act... would ensure workers have access to paid sick days and would no longer have to worry about taking a financial hit if they or their children fall ill.
I think this is one of the areas where we're way behind. Paid sick leave, I think, maternity leave, Senator Casey's bill...
I think we have a responsibility as a Federal Government to respond to a national, I think, crisis that we have in famil...
It seems to me that we need to have some societal type agreements that put some floors underneath this.
The Fair Pay Act, introduced by Chairman Harkin and Representative Holmes Norton, would address the devaluation of women...
I want to correct this, though. CBO did not do their own study.
The fact is we have better and more accurate studies that have been done in the last few years.
Raising the minimum wage, as proposed by Sen. Harkin, would give 15.4 million women a raise.
We can't afford it? We're the richest nation in the world. We're the richest nation in the history of the world.
I've authored legislation that would eliminate this problem by equalizing tax rates across tobacco products.
I joined with 10 of my colleagues to release an investigative report revealing that manufacturers are devoting massive r...