I commend you for holding this field hearing to build a record to educate your colleagues.

I also commend the esteemed Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Richard Shelby, for authorizing you to do so.

I wish to take a moment to express my disdain for the reprehensible actions of Planned Parenthood and my support for the defense of all the unborn babies subject to this group's immoral practices. Thanks to the Center for Medical Progress…

Senators Sherrod Brown and David Vitter have proposed a scale for capital requirements, with greater focus on the leverage ratio.

again, we all hold these families, particularly the two victims and their families, in our prayers and our continuing thoughts and our love. It was a horrible incident. But I know the community of Lafayette well, I know the State well, and…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

I come to the Senate floor sadly, in light of this tragedy, to join my colleague Senator Cassidy in expressing these heartfelt thoughts. We rise today to express our deepest sympathy for the victims of this horrible shooting in Lafayette…

I come before you to offer my support for the targeted tax reform that Senator Vitter is proposing.

I believe that what Senator Vitter is proposing in this bill falls directly in line with my values.

I look forward to it getting wide bipartisan support in this committee.

I firmly hope, though, that if both look to serve the other, it would benefit the whole.

I commend you for working on this legislation and bringing it to the Senate.

Thank you very, very much for your testimony.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome. The hearing of the Senate Small Business Committee will come to order.

I am introducing legislation to make it permanent.

We do not get nearly the bang out of the buck we should from these provisions when we let them limp along by extending them for short periods of time.

I come to the floor today to again bring up a very important issue. It is important because it impacts a major part of our lives, a major law that Congress passed several years ago. It is important because it goes to a fundamental…

It will not be overall tax reform. It will not be everything I would like to see.

I am really concerned about the vast amounts of data that CFPB collects on all citizens related to financial transactions.

I rise again in support of my sanctuary cities amendment and to urge us to come together around sensible legislation that will stop jurisdictions around the country from opposing and not following what is already Federal law. As the…

Well, there are big problems in my mind, and I have seen personally identifiable, transaction-related data that have been collected.

I have been very outspoken about the Obama Administration's energy and environmental regulations, which are overly burdensome, in my opinion, and really hold down a lot of great potential industry sector job creation.

Surely, you would agree that our understanding of American energy resources has been turned upside down since 1975.

What I am suggesting is, surely, the premise that Congress used in 1975, I mean, that has completely changed, right?

It is just wrong. It is bad policy. It will help our economy dramatically if we keep it here at a low price.