what is dysfunctional is a Republican filibuster of a bill on which 58 Senators want to move forward and debate. Allowing an unlimited number of amendments on any topic, going on forever, is not a reasonable way forward. We want to be able…

This is a topic we need to talk about--we need to do more than talk about; we need to do some things about.

We now have two decades of hard evidence disproving that theory.

Congress could pass, for example, the Employee Free Choice Act and make sure that there is more collective bargaining power in our economy.

I wish to commend all of the incredible work that the Senator from Michigan has done on the ``fair shot'' agenda, how she really has been out there working hard for families across this country. For middle-class families, for working…

I have to say, and to think about what it would mean if that million workers made $5 more an hour in terms of what they could buy elsewhere in the economy.

The global response to Ebola underscores the need for well-functioning and effective health and public health systems across the world.

Fighting epidemics in developing countries presents unique challenges.

The President of the United States asked you to serve your country by joining the NLRB, and your first appointment was consistent with this long, bipartisan tradition of recess appointments.

I hope to continue to work with Senator Harkin to advance our bill so that some flexibility and some sensibleness is appropriate and available to all workers in the case of trying to make reasonable schedules.

I believe that conflicts of interest, or the appearance thereof, should not undermine the SEC's critical work enforcing our securities laws.

Yet, despite the misconduct at these banks that generated tens of billions of dollars in settlement payments by the companies, not a single senior executive at these banks has been criminally prosecuted.