You cannot go into the poorer sections of my State, in Springfield or Chicago, you name it, without seeing evidence of title loans, pawn shops, currency exchanges, the kind of predatory-lending practices and charges which really take…

The problem I've run into in the foreclosure situation is figuring out who makes the decision.

Which means raising fees.

For these reasons, it is vitally important that the $227 million in the President's fiscal 2012 budget requested for the CDFI Fund is appropriated.

1 out of 4 people in America are unbanked; they have no access to banking services.

Can you generally describe them? Are they farmers' markets? Are they grocery chains?

WIPP supports the proposed $1 million funding for the Women Owned Small Business Federal Contract program included in the President's proposed budget.

there are parts of Illinois, downstate, that look an awful lot like Kansas.

I just want to make sure that, although your father receives a great deal of credit, that your mom is also acknowledged.

I don't question what we do. I'm just questioning about whether or not we have thought about the next year and the year after, and what it means, in terms of our thinking ahead, preparing resources for the eventuality.

Can you point out any bank, or banks, or credit unions, that you think are making an extra effort to address this problem?

Put simply, small businesses, we believe, are the key to economic recovery.

I'm concerned, here, that your request for next year's budget dramatically cuts, by 55 percent, the amount of money available to counsel microloan borrowers.

I ask the Record show that had I been present for vote No. 75, I would have voted ``yea'' on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1038. I unfortunately missed the vote after being unavoidably detained due to…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:40 p.m., adjourned until Monday, May 23, 2011, at 2 p.m…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 51, S. 990. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 990) to provide…

there will be a rollcall vote Monday at 5 p.m. on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1038, relating to the PATRIOT Act. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 2 p.m. on Monday, May 23; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of the proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed to…

I ask unanimous consent that unless I am already a cosponsor, I be added as a cosponsor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 184, and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 192 submitted earlier today. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution…

I ask unanimous consent that a Landrieu- Snowe substitute amendment, which is at the desk, be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or…

I have had the opportunity to visit Haiti on a number of occasions and have always been moved by the kindness and generosity of the Haitian people who live under such hard conditions. I have traveled for hours into rural Haiti to visit…

we have been speaking on the Senate floor about students who are being exploited by for-profit colleges. I think about turning on the television in Washington and the ad that really troubles me which shows a lovely young woman who says…

I ask the Senator again, this is Kaplan University, which owns the Washington Post?