Let us just stay focused on this question about cost.

because I want to direct this, because one consequence of the shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k)'s and IRAs was that Americans had to rely on investment advisors and broker-dealers who can legally take kickbacks for selling…

Federal law allows individuals, non-profits and small businesses who sue the government and win to recover their costs in a lawsuit if they can show that the Government's legal position wasn't substantially justified.

Nearly everyone in Congress says they support funding that agency. Talk is cheap, and Congress has decimated the NIH's budget, singlehandedly choking off support for projects that could lead to the next major breakthrough in Alzheimer's…

I want to say I am certain there are changes we could make at the FDA to help speed up the approval process and get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy.

The support has dried up.

Our health care system currently rewards private industry only for drugs that can be sold either at high cost or in very high volume.

The Nation owes you a great debt.

Given how important this issue is, you'd think our first priority here would be to figure out how to get the NIH the resources it needs to replenish the pipeline of great research that is the foundation for better treatments and reliable…

I come to the floor today with strong support of the National Labor Relations Board's new effort to make workplace union elections more efficient and more effective. I come to the floor today in opposition to Republican efforts to preserve…

But if the Fed fails to do that, I believe Congress should act.

If big financial institutions know that they can rely on the Fed to save them if they start to falter, then they have every incentive to take on more risk and to threaten the entire system.