History teaches us that when Congress does big things, labor law reform and Social Security with Franklin Roosevelt, in 1965 Lyndon Johnson with Medicare, the Congress 2 or 3 years...
too many Americans continue to struggle to make ends meet.
It means protecting consumers. It means improving the economic security of communities of color.
the status quo is not a viable option.
Protecting small lender access to the secondary market is an important area of bipartisan agreement.
In a Senate that looks dysfunctional to many on the outside and to many on the inside, it really was a terrific effort, 97-2.
do you commit to being independent from the Administration?
as Pope Francis said, admonished his parish priests, 'Go out and smell like the flock.'
Perhaps, as Lincoln said, we all need to get out and get our public opinion baths more than we do as elected officials and as regulators.
We know what causes outsourcings: it is low wages, it is exploited workers, it is weak or nonexistent or unenforced environmental protection...
I urged, first, the President to secure commitments on labor and environmental standards before the talks begin.