During the 111th Congress, Senator Sherrod Brown introduced legislation (S. 3189) that would provide for increased flexibility in the use of Federal transit funds.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

So is streamlining still to be at 400 days, 300 days, is that considered streamlining still?

But when you are the servicemember trying to get on with your life, I mean, it is an eternity.

yesterday the White House announced it will not submit three pending free-trade agreements, FTAs, with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama until Congress reaches a deal on reauthorizing the trade adjustment assistance for workers programs…

Our standard here is the veteran-centric approach which is what is good for them, what is right for them.

I ask unanimous consent that morning business be extended until 8 p.m. for debate only, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I thank the senior Senator from New York who has been a real leader on this issue to bring more tax fairness to the American people and take away the subsidies of these five companies that absolutely do not need those subsidies and to help…

We need to allow, or give the Postal Service the tools and resources they will need to move forward.

I just met in a room near the Senate floor with doctors and others from three of America's great children's hospitals: Rainbow Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and Cincinnati Children's…

We need strong nominees who will not be afraid to take bold steps to prevent a new financial crisis.

Thank you for your service the last half-decade. You have served your country well and you have been very helpful to so many of us.

This is serious business and should not be so politicized that they block nominee after nominee after nominee.

It will increase the likelihood we have another AIG or Lehman Brothers.

the outcry worked with FDA. The outcry barely worked with KV.

What is NIH's role in sort of examining these, exploring these, finding out the environmental cause, if it is that, as I presume.

we are in a financial emergency and we need to squeeze out every last dollar.

There is a tremendous amount of waste in here that I am glad----

there needs to be an effort to reestablish trust between the American people and the Federal Government.

people want to do their fair share, but they also want to know that when they do it, they are not going to be wasting their hard-earned dollars.

We had a hearing on it a couple of weeks ago, in the Medicare and----

yesterday across this country, we celebrated Mother's Day, marking the contribution of mothers across our country. But 2 months ago, the health of tens of thousands of expectant mothers and their unborn children was threatened by a drug…

I was presiding, before the senior Senator from Missouri took my place, and was listening to two of the last three speakers talk about their budget religion, if you will. I think about this. I think we have to look at a little bit of his…

I wish to talk about teachers. In my State, the legislature just passed something called SB 5, and the Governor in Ohio signed it. It was a direct assault in many ways on the teaching profession. The discussions I hear from conservative…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the fact that you have been trying to push out their home page Web page information.