In your own State of Ohio, the payday lender CheckSmart is using a prepaid card to evade the State's usury cap.

Senator Brown, in your own State of Ohio, prepaid cards are being used by the payday lender CheckSmart to evade Ohio's payday loan laws.

I want a budget. I have been asking for it since I got here.

It is getting access to the programs that include medical treatment and counseling and education and, where appropriate, legal assistance.

I wish to thank my colleagues today for supporting an amendment by voice vote showing overwhelming support to the Transportation bill that improves ``Buy American'' provisions by making the waiver process more transparent, giving U.S…

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

are we in morning business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is not in morning business.

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 1819. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the amendment. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows…

I vote with my party 54 percent of the time.

A HEALTHY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION RELYING ON TEN CENTERS

Thank you for your service.

I'm looking for what you can tell us NASA can do to better utilize those facilities.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Attorney General Holder, for your service.

Last week, I helped lead an effort supported by more than 180 House and Senate Members, calling for a full examination of China's policies and practices in the auto parts sector that have flooded our Nation.

Workers, especially in my State, have faced firsthand the problem with our trade laws that require enormous injury from unfairly traded foreign products before any response by our Government.

the Congress will move quickly and bipartisanally on enforcement of trade laws.

I note from the Secretary's comments that in those States where there was not a lot of support, at least from their elected officials, for ACA, those are the ones, because they are the poorer States, that tend to get the most.

if we get delayed much more, we are not going to have another opportunity to address it in an open, honest, and fair way.

Is there ever any conversation about actually lowering prices?

Yes, we need to get those reports quickly. We are in an emergency with the Postal Service.

when first-class stamps reach 50 cents and over, that is it. I am done.

I think it is vitally necessary for what we are trying to do--the band of four trying to save the Postal Service.

the current business model is not sustainable.

I think the 21st Century Post Service Act, S. 1789, with Senators Lieberman, Collins, Carper, and me, was a good start.

I have had, over the last couple weeks around my State of Ohio, a number of conversations with workers and management both who work for auto companies, from foreign-owned Honda in central Ohio to the big three auto companies, which are…