$1 billion in services trade can translate into 7,000 jobs.

Democrats will not accept massive cuts to TAA, nor will we tolerate separate consideration of TAA which will jeopardize its passage.

There is strong support in this committee, bipartisan, for provisions both on fast-track and on our trade remedy laws to fight currency manipulation.

Senator Sessions wants to speak in a moment, and I will be brief. I would like to thank Senator Booker for his always stirring words and for his sense of justice and fair play and leadership in so many ways. I met Jim about 1 year ago and…

my home of Cleveland, OH, is one of our Nation's historic great centers of industry. Our manufacturing base helped to build our country's infrastructure to win World War II and to spur our economy to new heights in the 21st century. We are…

let me start with a story. More than 15 years ago, a friend and I--I met with friends, and I flew to South Texas at my own expense. I wanted to see how the North American Free Trade Agreement was working. During my first year in Congress…

18 years ago, the 6 biggest U.S. banks had assets equal to 18 percent of the GDP. Today, those six banks' combined assets are about 63 percent of GDP, with an average of more than 5,000 legal entities operating in 57 different countries…

I thank the Senator from Illinois as well as the Senator from New Jersey and the Senator from California. We are united in our goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon; we all know that here. I commend the President for…

I ask to call up amendment No. 994. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is pending.

FSOC is working. If anything, it is working too slowly.

I am concerned by proposals that would tie the FSOC's hands.

American taxpayers paid the price in lost homes and jobs and billions of bailout dollars.

most people agree that Senate drafters of Dodd-Frank set the threshold at $50 billion because they wanted to avoid creating the moral hazard associated with a market perception that an institution is too big to fail.

Do you think that regulators, regional banks, and taxpayers would benefit from the proposal that I offered sometime ago, the Brown-Kaufman bill--Senator Shelby supported it as an amendment on the Senate floor; Governor Tarullo has spoken…

It is important we advance this conversation to ensure that prudential regulations for regional banks are crafted appropriately.

I generally believe it. Simplifying the larger banks so that they are no longer too big to regulate would also, I think it goes without saying, help agencies better allocate their resources.

I appreciate the Chairman calling this hearing to examine the regulation of regional banks. It is an important topic.

can you speak to the impact of Medicaid expansion on state economies?

yesterday, I, along with a number of my colleagues, filed an amendment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. This amendment, based on the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act which we filed as a stand-alone bill last Congress, would…

time is running out for us to extend the Children's Health Insurance Program, a program that began almost 20 years ago in this body and the other body and that right now is taking care of 10 million children--the children of parents who in…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I appreciate the good work of the Senator from Kansas. We have worked on, in the Banking Committee, a number of issues together, and I appreciate the work we have been able to do across party lines. So I thank the Senator for that…

I am joined on the floor this evening by Senator Casey. Just 2 weeks ago, he and I and a half dozen other Senators came to the floor in an unusual configuration. It is not something Senators do all that often. We came as a group, but each…

I object on behalf of a number of Members on this side. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

the Senate is presently considering a series of human trafficking bills that will help law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations to take swift aggressive action to protect our most vulnerable populations and work to ensure justice…