today we bring to the floor on a bipartisan basis the annual appropriation bills of the Commerce- Justice-Science bill, the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and also the Agriculture, Rural Development, and…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 18, 2014, at 10 a.m., to conduct a…

I am concerned about the decision to prevent the Naval Air Station Patuxent River from working with non-Navy customers.

I am proud to rise today to support the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act. This bill would allow eligible students refinance their Federal loans, transfer private loans into Federal loans with better interest rates, and…

I wish to speak in strong support of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who has been nominated to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS. HHS is a $1 trillion agency responsible for, among other things, managing…

I come to the floor today in recognition of the approaching Memorial Day holiday to express my deepest gratitude, respect, and appreciation for the men and women of our Armed Forces and for our veterans. In order to commemorate our vets…

Women, before the ACA, paid much more, often 20 percent to 30 percent more for their insurance.

The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced by Senator Mikulski and Representative DeLauro, is a commonsense piece of legislation.

The Paycheck Fairness Act would enable the Department of Labor to gather better information about wage differences.

Women in this country have always worked. There is somehow or another this myth that there are these little ladies at home...

It would be a tragedy to reach out and take those protections away from them.

Apart from wanting to be a good employer, do you feel that these practices increase productivity and profit, or are they kind of neutral, or are they negative?

It is currently estimated that one in five deaths can be directly attributed to tobacco use.

Smoking reduces life expectancy by at least 10 years and the CDC has said that tobacco use results in at least $133 billion worth of direct medical care costs each year.

I must say, I really admired, one, your integrity in working with me. You were a straight shooter, and what you said you meant, and what you said, you did.

And today is not the day, but we really need to work together on this issue of the unaccompanied children coming across our border, so that they have a home and that they have a way to get to a home, and we have a way to get to the funding…

this is a humanitarian crisis, and we have to go to the edge of our chairs to at least get the estimate for fiscal year 2015.

I am getting lost here. Do you have the money or don't you? I mean, is this enough or not?

I rise in support of the Boxer resolution calling for international action and aggressive action from our own government in terms of the rescue of 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school their parents paid for them to…

We have children pouring over the border from Central America.

We have gone from 6,500 to 60,000.

We don't want to warehouse them. We try to put them in foster care.

Tell me what you need, and don't stick us with the bill at the end.

We were able to make important reforms that improved the quality of care children receive.

I am really frustrated about this.