Our focus should be on ensuring liquidity during times of stress, and it sounds like Dodd-Frank has helped us do exactly that.

I wish to say a special thank-you to Senator Mikulski for her terrific leadership on all of this. Today is Equal Pay Day. By the sound of it, one would think it is some sort of historic holiday commemorating the anniversary of a landmark…

The only way that American manufacturing will truly rebound in this country is if we start taking seriously our investments in people, and that means helping people get an education without getting crushed by student loan debt.

I think that is obscene.

We have heard a lot today about the changing nature of manufacturing, innovative technologies that have enabled manufacturing operations to become smarter, more efficient, more complex.

I think as we talk about the question about how we build a manufacturing base, certainly part of that is to make the investments in R&D, to make sure that our trade policies benefit, not just big business and their investors, but that they…

The first version of this legislation back in 1965 was to affirm the Federal role in protecting civil rights and educational opportunities for all students, especially our most vulnerable students.

the Department of Defense announced funding for a new $317 million innovation institute in Massachusetts that would focus on researching revolutionary fibers and textile manufacturing.

Given the long history of State and local decisions shortchanging vulnerable students, the Department cannot shirk from its responsibility, regulatory and enforcement responsibility, to ensure that the implementation of ESSA eliminates…

the Department of Education ensure that those States actually use the money to help those kids.

payday lenders that build business models around trapping people in the never ending cycle of debt are throwing bricks to a drowning man.

I hope you will move quickly to complete your rulemaking on payday loans. You are the best hope for millions of American families to avoid these debt traps in the future.

Thank you for all the hard work that you have done to draw attention to the impact of Alzheimer's on families all across this country.

Real progress on Alzheimer's and other brain-related diseases and injuries require more funding from NIH, and this is truly an area where we get what we pay for, and right now we are not investing enough to stop Alzheimer's.

I just do want to add one point on this, and that is to express my gratitude to Senator Collins for her leadership on the Advancing NIH Strategic Planning and Representation in Medical Research Act because this is an important step in…

Our bill would also help ensure that sex-specific data and analyses will actually be conducted and reported, and that sex is considered as a potentially important variable in pre-clinical studies.

Senator Collins and I have been working on this issue together, and earlier this week we joined with our colleagues to introduce the Advancing NIH Strategic Planning and Representation in Medical Research Act.

the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission spent years looking into the causes of the crisis and identifying the Fed's failure to regulate subprime mortgages as one of the key drivers of the collapse of 2008.

Even former Chair Greenspan admitted that the Fed made a mistake by failing to regulate subprime mortgages.

The 4,000,000 people who live in the territories are not the subjects of a King. They are Americans.

This kind of second class status is not how our government is supposed to work and it has real implications.

It is a central principle of our American democracy that Americans, through their votes, can have a say in their own governments.

you lost faith that the agency would become a truly independent entity and carefully balance consumer costs and access to credit with consumer protection.

Of all the people who might be called on to advise Congress about how to weigh the costs and benefits of consumer regulations, I am surprised that my Republican colleagues would choose a witness who might have one of the worst track…

I was told that even though you played a key role in blowing up the economy, that I needed to hire you