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

I rise to honor the memory of Jesse Owens, an Olympic recordbreaker and pioneer on the track and off the track, who was born 100 years ago tomorrow. Born in Alabama as the youngest of 10 children, James Cleveland Owens moved with his…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Blumenthal). Without objection, it is so ordered. Honoring the Life of Jesse Owens

most of us were in our States over Labor Day. I usually come to the floor a few days after Labor Day to talk about the importance of Labor Day and what it means to working Americans, what it has meant to our country, and what it has meant…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 15 minutes. After I conclude my remarks, I ask that Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma and Senator Casey of Pennsylvania be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there any…

in 1935 Senator Robert Wagner of New York introduced the National Labor Relations Act. Also known as the Wagner Act, this bill would prove to be one of the most important pieces of legislation in our Nation's history. This desk at which I…

most of my colleagues might look at these pictures and think they depict facilities owned by ExxonMobil or BP, but this is, amazingly enough, a picture of Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley, to most Americans and most people in this Chamber…

I urge you to hold fast on them when the megabanks fight to weaken those standards.

If these are the costs of a safer financial system, aren't they worth it?

And if it means the bonuses are a little smaller and that dividends are a little less and the earnings reports of the banks are not quite up to what they were this quarter, which was a pretty lucrative quarter for them, that is a price we…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks of Senator Thune. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

Tomorrow at 10 a.m. there will be a rollcall vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Hochberg nomination. ____________________

Do agencies inform consumers that they can sue? Is this--that they cannot sue? Is that something that they do?

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 196)…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 196, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 2013; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

I thank the chairwoman of the agriculture committee for her work. This is legislation that saves taxpayers literally tens of billions of dollars while strengthening the safety net. The bill provides adequate revenue and nutrition for…

in the years leading up to the financial crisis, the biggest banks and lenders created new ways to make record profits off of consumers. They made predatory loans to working-class families, created prepaid cards with exploitative fees, and…

That is good news all around.

The Subcommittee will come to order. Thank you to the witnesses for joining us.

That is good news in terms of moving forward, good news in terms of setting a precedent in this agency.

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Stabenow be recognized for up to 3 minutes and that I be recognized for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

there is broad agreement that overleveraged financial institutions significantly contributed, to put it mildly, to the 2008 financial crisis and that they were bailed out because everyone knows they are too big to fail. Years later--5…

I come to the Senate floor from time to time to share thoughts from people in my State. All of us are hearing comments from college students, people who have finished college, and often from the parents of those who face a massive debt…

I want to echo the words of my colleague from Iowa about the upcoming vote this week, which is so important. We know a lot of what has happened with student loan debt, which now exceeds $1 trillion--that is 1,000 billion dollars. It is…