Then I certainly will. Mr. President, last week the majority leader wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, and it was titled, without a hint of irony, ``How the Senate Is Supposed to Work.'' In his article, Senator McConnell declared…

I ask through the Chair if the majority leader will yield for a question. Mr. McCONNELL. I yielded the floor.

Yes. Mr. President, I wish I could say that I am surprised by this, but I am not surprised. The Republican leader can say whatever he wants today, but he has made his intentions very clear when it comes to President Obama. On the eve of…

Trump tells everyone who will listen that he is a great businessman. But let's be honest, he is just a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people.

Brian Martinotti deserves better than this. All these nominees deserve better than this. Merrick Garland deserves better than this, and the American people deserve better than this. We will keep fighting to try to get the Senate…

No, Donald, what you are doing is a total disgrace. Race baiting a judge who spent years defending America from the terror of murderers and drug traffickers simply because long ago his family came to America from somewhere else, you…

right this minute, right here on the floor of the Senate, we face one of those ``issues of great national significance'' that the majority leader wrote about in the Wall Street Journal. It is an exploding number of judicial vacancies. The…

I am asking if the majority leader will yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader does not have the floor.

Well, thank you very much. You know, Congressman Hensarling is in New York today meeting with Donald Trump to discuss what we could call his 'Wet Kiss for Wall Street Act.'

But if unity means a marriage between Donald Trump's toxic racism and Jeb Hensarling's Wall Street giveaways, then I think they would be better off with division.

What kind of man does that to us? A small, insecure money grabber who doesn't care who gets hurt, so long as he makes a profit off it.

A small insecure money grabber who doesn't care who gets hurt, so long as he makes a profit off it.

Now that he's sewn up with the Republican nomination, Donald Trump is dropping all pretenses. He's kissing the fannies of the poor, misunderstood Wall Street bankers.

But a recent report by former Treasury officials and other sanctions experts concluded that... the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action did not lead to a $100 to $150 billion immediate windfall for the Iranian regime.

Last July, the United States and its allies reached an agreement with Iran to roll back its nuclear program in exchange for relief from some economic sanctions.

the best way to change Iran's behavior is to keep the pressure on.

Iran faces barriers to foreign investment that go well beyond the complexities of longstanding nuclear-related sanctions.

it seems to me that it plays directly into the hands of the hardliners in Iran who want to blame the West for their economic woes.

If they do not start addressing these areas, they are not going to see the foreign business come in.

Donald Trump was drooling over the idea of a housing meltdown because it meant he could buy up more property all the cheap. What kind of a man does that?

Let's face it, Donald Trump is about exactly one thing. Donald Trump.

8 years ago reckless bankers on Wall Street sparked a financial meltdown. Their too-big-to-fail banks gambled with our economy, encouraging reckless mortgage lending by funding the slimy subprime lenders who peddled their miserable…

As this bill is currently written, it is a giveaway to BDC executives, and it is masquerading as a small business bill.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for having this hearing today. Thank you all for being here.

In 1980, Congress created these business development companies, or BDCs, as special investment vehicles with the goal of giving small businesses more access to capital.