It is strange credibility to think that would be good Government.

in 1988--almost 30 years ago--when Justice Kennedy was elected to the Supreme Court, President Reagan said: ``Every day that passes with a Supreme Court below full strength impairs the people's business in that crucially important body.''…

the industry--and it is the industry--continues to fight CFPB's existence, and those in Congress who are advocating for the industry join them to fight their existence.

the billions of dollars it may have cost banks, to imply that that was not passed on in large numbers to consumers is also a bit misleading.

you really--you make the statement that all of a sudden because of the Durbin rule, these banks cut down on the number of free checking accounts, the amount of free checking they were doing, that is a pretty tentative cause and effect that…

The crisis revealed that Americans needed a Federal watchdog that would put their interests first.

the Durbin rule, maybe it was added in the middle of the night, as you claim, but it was a Senate vote, and it was a heavily lobbied Senate vote on both sides.

The CFPB has been absolutely a success.

These inconsistencies are not indicative of any widespread fraud by real-world enrollees.

I would just hope you would be more sensitive than your answers perhaps suggested.

Government is only as good as the people who are entrusted with positions of leadership.

I have been clear in my frustration with this Committee's failure to act on the many nominees for whom we are responsible.

I appreciate Senator Donnelly's bringing up his constituents who have been so wronged by greedy management.

Thank you, Madam President. Thank you to my colleagues for the terrific work they have done on such an important issue, which in my State sort of began in the most rural of the areas of the State and spread and spread and spread. This is…

last week I met with Rita Lewis of Westchester, OH, in southwest Ohio. She was here to testify in front of the Senate Committee on Finance in honor of her late husband Butch. Butch worked as a trucker for 40 years with the promise that the…

earlier this week and last week I joined a number of my colleagues on the floor and spoke at length about the need for our fellow Senators on the other side of the aisle to do something simple--to do their jobs. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…

I thank the Presiding Officer. Earlier this week and last I spoke at length about the need for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to do their job and to move forward with hearings and an up-or-down vote on whomever the President…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Tillis). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call…

We do not have a single representative of American manufacturers on this panel.

This is about creating a system that is a fair system and that has a structure.

These documents illustrate, I think, widespread issues with FTA implementation and enforcement and the need to get them right under TPP.

My number one goal, when it comes to the cutthroat global economy, is to fight for American workers.

I appreciate the comments from my friend from West Virginia and his work on this issue that has hit West Virginia and, particularly, southeast Ohio kind of first and hardest. But it has spread to so many other places and caused so much…

I thank the Senator from Pennsylvania for his leadership. Various doctors may not realize they are prescribing duplicative opioid painkillers. We have done the lock-in with Medicaid. In many States, it has worked. This is a commonsense…

Under the loophole, economics trumped human rights, and Senator Brown and I said that was absolutely, 100 percent wrong.