I would like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record the press release put out by Ford Motor Company earlier this year announcing their withdrawal from the Japanese market.

Respect for labor rights is at the core of increasing jobs, raising wages and creating broadly shared prosperity.

We need to get enforcement.

If we are going to have this discussion, we should have it now, and it should be in the broad daylight.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a timeline of the AFL's efforts to use state-to-state dispute settlement to respond to CAFTA labor violations in Guatemala.

this week the Supreme Court--which is lacking a ninth Justice for the foreseeable future for reasons that most of the American public doesn't understand since my fellow Senators--my Republican colleagues--simply refuse to do their…

People across the United States will not allow that to happen.

I remember hearing people across the horseshoe from me critical of these auto workers who had all these legacy costs.

Thank you for supporting the Keep Our Pension Promises Act, which would solve the whole problem of underfunded multiemployer plans.

I ask unanimous consent for an additional 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

A woman in New Carlisle wrote to me saying: There was a time when I could not find full-time employment, I did not have health insurance, and I also was not eligible for any assistance from the government. My husband and I were newly…

KOPPA would roll back MPRA's pension-cut provisions, while providing funding to troubled multiemployer plans.

I close just begging, urging, imploring, and beseeching my colleagues on the Republican side to move forward on the Supreme Court nominee. We have not had a Supreme Court vacancy for as long as a year since the Civil War because we were at…

in the last 2 minutes I would like to say a few more words about the Supreme Court vacancy. Four former U.S. attorneys from Ohio, Washington State, California, and Virginia published an op-ed that went around the country urging the Senate…

I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

the sudden passing and tragic death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia leaves us with a vacancy to fill on our country's highest Court, but it shouldn't lead us to a yearlong political standoff. Article II, section 2, of the Constitution…

How long will it take for these--whatever the number, up to and including the number 61, if there are 40 or 60 or 20--how long will it take to bring in and train new providers?

I need your assurances first that while this investigation is going on and the issues and problems are being fixed, you will ensure that veterans receive better quality and good quality care throughout.

We need to make sure that health-care providers have the tools they need to manage patients who are being seriously harmed and may even die from addiction.

It makes no sense. We have one proven tool that could help patients suffering from addiction, and Medicare is not even allowed to use it.

I do want the commitment that, if proven, people who have retaliated against whistleblowers will be held accountable.

understanding that this is a Congress where most of its members have taken pledges to lobbyists saying they will never come up with any revenues

It is clear that implementing a program in Medicare will help, but not solve the problem.

We would love your help to get this to the President's desk, where I believe he would be very pleased to sign it.

CHWs are integral to the success of CHAP, and have already been invaluable in Ohio's effort to reduce infant mortality.