That is one reason I think the chairman calling this hearing is so important.

Under the leadership of Chairman Stabenow and Ranking Member Cochran, the Senate has again passed a bipartisan deficit- reducing bill that will help our farms, our families, our economy, and our environment. The Agriculture Reform, Food…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn following the remarks of Senator Sessions, as provided for under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 5 minutes. Following my remarks, Senator Sessions will have the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Tomorrow at 2:15 p.m., there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the immigration bill. If cloture is invoked, there will be a second vote at 4 p.m. to adopt the motion to proceed and begin consideration of the bill…

You can assure this committee and this Senate that in these large-scale regional trade agreements, whether it is the U.S.-EU agreement or whether it is the TPP, that we will not--you/we will not--undermine any of the financial regulators…

Do you think investor-state provisions are fundamentally different in an advanced property rights group of countries like the EU than in a trade agreement we might have signed with a Latin American country?

I am hopeful that you will look at this in a bit more proactive, preemptive way as you decide this.

I think you seeing steel being made, and its importance in the economy in making things and being a leader in everything from national security to security of families that make steel, would matter so much.

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his unanimous consent request, and I ask unanimous consent that after I conclude my remarks, the Senator from Rhode Island Mr. Whitehouse be recognized for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

today new U.S.-China trade deficit figures from April show a 34-percent increase since March. Last month our trade deficit with the world's second largest economy was more than $24 billion. I remember about a dozen years ago when the…

Part of the problem is that some of our companies are all too willing to take advantage of China's lax safety standards.

But just as important has been China's failure to provide its citizens basic rights.

The risk to Americans has increased since we expanded trade relations with China without both providing for mechanisms to ensure safe imports.

This increased reliance on China has had grave consequences.

Their fears are not allayed in this and their worst nightmares may be realized if we do not act on this.

Our legislation, Senator Vitter's and my legislation, Brown-Vitter, addresses a lot of that.

I rise today to discuss one of the most important and significant reforms of our Nation's agriculture in decades. The Agriculture Reform, Food, and JOBS Act of 2013, known around here as the farm bill, is the product of months and months…

It also pulls us out of Basel III, so it deals with a lot of those issues in a way that I want to ask Secretary Lew about.

The market understands what Basel III is about, and the market assumes Basel III will go into effect.

the market implies that too-big-to-fail may still be around.

Market participants may continue to perceive that some institutions receive special treatment by virtue of their size.

How long do we wait until the IRS responds, from Washington--not blaming it on Cincinnati, but from Washington. How long do we wait?

50 years ago, in August 1963, Martin Luther King wrote, ``Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'' When a factory full of human beings collapses in Bangladesh, it matters in Bucyrus and Boardman and Bellefontaine. When the…

there is beginning to be some evidence that China may be looking seriously to change their policies