I know Senator Casey and I have fought for American manufacturing for pretty much our whole careers. I think our trade policy has done more--and the way we do globalization has done as much damage to our country as almost anything in terms…

In his almost 50 years of public service, he always has been his own man... He likes to say, reflecting on our State's tremendous potential, "the rust is off the belt," as people used to refer to Cleveland as the rust belt but now see it…

Senator Stabenow, Democrat from Michigan, Senator Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, and I bring this amendment to the floor to extend for 1 year modest enhancements to the Health Coverage Tax Credit Program. I am going to throw a…

over the last few weeks, I have met and talked with many people across Ohio about our Nation's economic future--family and friends, constituents who are struggling to get by, and ministers and pastors who counsel them. I have read letters…

It tells a story. I came to the floor right after that vote. I had supported it all along. I cosponsored Senator Sanders' effort to bring that to the floor, for the $250 check for all seniors and all disabled veterans, I might add, not…

This really is not a liberal-conservative issue. First of all, the tax cuts overwhelmingly go to the wealthiest taxpayers. We are seeing the kinds of tax cuts that millionaires and billionaires get from the income tax and from the estate…

Fifty million people would get a check for $250 from the government, because, I believe, about $13 billion for 1 year, it wouldn't have been a long-term deficit issue; it would have been a one-time cost for people who didn't get a…

That $750 billion is $75 billion a year for 10 years for millionaires and billionaires versus $13 billion once for senior citizens. In essence, that $750 billion--without getting too much into the weeds on numbers--in essence, we are…

I hear what the Senator says about the tax burden in this country; that it falls predominantly on the middle class. When I hear him talk about the estate tax, couples pay no estate tax on the first $10 million of their assets after they…

I stand here simply amazed at what happened in the Senate, although I probably shouldn't be. I stand here amazed because in these economic times, senior citizens from Gallipolis to Ashtabula, to Middletown, to Toledo, in my State, and from…

I'm very unhappy about it. ... It, in essence, takes $700 billion -- borrows $700 billion from China, charges it, and puts it on our children and grandchildren's credit cards, and gives it to the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers.

I'm very unhappy about it. In essence, it takes $700 billion -- borrows $700 billion from China, charges it and puts it on our children and grandchildren's credit cards and gives it to the wealthiest two percent of taxpayers.

I thank the senior Senator from Montana, who laid out exactly why his efforts to extend the Bush tax cuts to the middle class up to $250,000 and to not extend them beyond that is the exact right public policy. It is good fiscal policy. It…

Yes, that is it. To illustrate that further to Senator Schumer and to the Presiding Officer, as to the last two big tax cuts that were done in this country for the wealthy--in 2003 by President Bush, in 2001 by President Bush--we know what…

I also agree with Senator McCain that we should have asked, 'do you favor repeal of DADT,' as one of the questions.

Over the last few months, our Nation has mourned the loss of several lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers driven to suicide because of hateful and ignorant bullying and harassment. These tragic circumstances brought families…

I hear a lot of discussion from regular people... about what this new health care law has meant to them. I meet 22-year-olds who are now on their parents' health insurance plan. If you are 22 in this country today, your chances of finding…

I come to the floor to share letters from Ohioans from all corners of my State, letters mostly from people who have lost their jobs and depend on something called unemployment insurance. It is insurance, not welfare, not giveaways. People…

Ohio is consistently, as you've heard me say and others say, at the bottom of the benefit ratings.

The American people do not want to see us relitigate and redebate the health care legislation. They want some focus on job growth. But what strikes me as a bit hypocritical... there are so many Members in the House of Representatives and…

Ohio is consistently at the bottom in these benefit ratings.

I am greatly concerned, as I know the Chairwoman is, on the allegation that there is money going to the insurgents, the Taliban in particular.

Everyone in this room, certainly, regardless of party, wants this program to succeed.

Is there any cooperation? Is there any foresight, while they are sitting around, to get some folks in there to help them find employment once they get out?

To what extent are we allowing nonprofits, NGO's, Fortune 500 companies, and corporate America into the installations to help these Wounded Warriors find a job while they are getting treated?