we have made great strides in recent years ensuring that Americans of all ages have access to quality health care. Part of this success comes from the Children's Health Insurance Program created in 1997 as a joint State-Federal health…

This hearing is timely as Federal agencies have made important changes recently that benefit the smallest depository institutions.

I appreciate that you have invited both Federal and State regulators to continue the conversation that we had last fall about regulatory relief for small banks and for credit unions.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

this week we celebrate Salute to Veterans Week to honor all those who have served our Nation in uniform and their families who sacrificed so much for our country. This week is a particularly appropriate time for us to reflect on the…

These are, as you know, very serious accusations and in some cases more than accusations, as we found.

So this is a proposal that fundamentally shuts down tax havens, as we have discussed before, and prevents a global race to the bottom.

Let us speak of something that we can work out--thank you for that--and that we have worked out bipartisanly for decades, and that is the Social Security Disability Insurance.

I want to echo their remarks.

We do not think that the numbers that we have picked have kind of an absolute truth to them.

I am hopeful that, as we move forward on that, we can bring you in our direction a little bit more.

today the House of Representatives held yet another vote--I think they are maybe up to 50-some--to repeal the Affordable Care Act, showing once again their objective is to dismantle the health care law. House Republicans voted to repeal…

Senator Murray and I introduced the Insuring Access to Primary Care for Women and Children Act, which would have extended this payment parity for 2 more years.

Congress needs to act swiftly to avoid any disruption in children's coverage.

Funding for a new facility for NIOSH was not included in the FY2016 proposed budget.

Forty Governors, both parties, have written to this committee to stress how critical the current CHIP program is to their States.

There are few things that this committee works on, a few important major things, that have had the history of bipartisanship that CHIP has.

1 year and 1 week ago, on a cold, snowy morning in Cleveland, OH, not much different from what I woke up to this morning in Cleveland, OH, I attended the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast in that city, which is also my hometown. A…

I wish to also say a few words about another career public servant. He is not leaving public service, but he is leaving the chief of staff's position in my office. Mark Powden has been my chief of staff since 2009. He started with Senator…

tomorrow, Friday, January 30, is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day. It is a day to highlight a vital tool for Americans working--and I emphasize ``working''--their way out of poverty. Too many Americans work hard, play by the rules…

I rise today to honor a couple of people with Ohio ties who have dedicated much of their careers to public service, Rob Lehman and Luke Albee. Rob Lehman served more than two decades on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch most…

I rise to discuss the Children's Health Insurance Program. This Congress 20 years ago passed CHIP. It was an invention of Senator Kennedy and Senator Hatch, both Senators who cared a lot about what we do to help low-income children. I was…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Children's Health Insurance Program

continue to press them until they have rescinded the measures that caused this problem and have restored market access for U.S. truck exports that existed prior to implementation of this measure.

The Administration is pursuing an aggressive trade agenda, and it is important that Congress continue to provide equally aggressive oversight of all trade negotiations.