I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 29, 2014; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

I understand that S. 2262, introduced earlier today by Senators Shaheen, Portman, and others is at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. The…

I ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for a second time on the next legislative day. ____________________

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:09 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, April 29, 2014, at 10 a.m…

there will be six rollcall votes starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow. ____________________

I rise to discuss partly the state of our economy but more precisely the state of our workers. Working Americans are in some sense being attacked from both ends. We have seen an orchestrated attempt to cut safety net programs where a…

I ask unanimous consent that Micah Murphy, a Navy fellow assigned to the office of Senator McCain, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 113th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I rise today on three matters. First and most importantly is the issue of pay equity. Frankly, we should not be talking about this in 2014--the fact that women still too often do not get equal pay for equal work. Senate Republicans showed…

I appreciate Senator Burr bringing up such an interesting issue of what happens at Northwestern with these players, and I might add, I have met with a couple of them, and they are definitely not asking for compensation.

He is now serving a four-year sentence for 'disturbing social order.'

But when his own citizens, including the father of our witness today, sought to hold the Chinese government accountable they were punished.

He has presided over a worrisome crackdown that is estimated to have swept away more than 150 activists, lawyers, journalists, and intellectuals.

President Xi Jinping has been in power more than a year.

I know Senator Burr did not say that, but it is about concussions, and it is about a kid who gets hurt and loses his scholarship because he is of no use to the university then and may not have his health care provided for.

We must hold China accountable for its commitments.

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as if in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

it has been more than 3 months since 2 million Americans and nearly 60,000 people in my home State of Ohio and tens of thousands of people in the Presiding Officer's State of Massachusetts--overwhelmingly most of whom have worked day in…

The future of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong is under serious threat.

China promised to let the people of Hong Kong freely elect their leaders and enjoy the freedoms of speech, press, and religion.

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

I was not planning this today, but as many of my colleagues do, I do a morning coffee where anybody from my State of Ohio--as Senator Durbin does in Illinois, Senator Udall in New Mexico, and others--and my colleague from Ohio does one…

on October 16, 1936, President Roosevelt visited the then-largest city in Ohio, the town my wife and I live in, Cleveland, OH. He spoke about why the ``trickle down'' theory does not work--this whole view that has been tried a number of…

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

Payday lending is an experiment that began in the early 1990s in this country, and the goal was to try to make more credit available to financially fragile consumers.

I rise today to discuss one of the most concerning issues our country faces today, an issue that Chairman Harkin particularly has been outspoken on, and that is the growing retirement crisis. A couple weeks ago I chaired in the Finance…