On average, women earn just 78 cents for every dollar paid to their male co-workers.

The gap is even larger in the African-American and Hispanic communities.

Rosa, you have been a champion, as Tom Harkin has been, throughout your career: one of the most vocal and successful advocates for women and families for as long as I have known you.

The Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Act will not end discrimination in America.

Presidents of both parties, have typically not sent letters as they do when servicemen and women are killed.

The rate of young veterans committing suicide continues to rise at alarming rates.

Solving this credit crisis on Main Street is going to require multiple strategies.

Thank you for your focus especially on manufacturing, what it means to the auto supply chain and helping those companies get credit.

How do we help manufacturers who want to do that in these more difficult credit times?

We have to do more to make sure that companies like Kitchen Kaboodle can gain access to credit.

We need to enact aggressive policies that ease the credit conditions facing small businesses and get our economy back on track.

There is legislation I introduced called the IMPACT Act, which would set up a Federal revolving loan fund.

right now there is a meeting at the White House that is being covered extensively by the media live. There has been much anticipation about the meeting between the President and a number of Members of Congress, equally divided between the…

I would love to know what has been done, what the plan is to continue with that effort. Have we realized any savings?

I believe, similarly to you, Madam Chairman, that if we don't do it, they will--if we don't draw the line in the sand, it will not get done.

I find, being here over 100 days now, that the biggest problem we have is people just need to make decisions and stick to them.

Our SECTORS Act, our legislation is basically founded on, as Senator Enzi suggested, that it is from the bottom up.

I have watched over the last 13 months since President Obama took the oath of office-- 13 months and less than a week--and I am incredulous the Senator from Louisiana would say what he says; that we, in fact, do not allow debate in this…

I thank Senator Dorgan, who has led with Senator Durbin on all kinds of job creation efforts, understanding that although the private sector creates these jobs, it is a partnership with the private and public sector and State and local and…

In the years leading up to the financial crisis, risky and reckless bonus-laden pay packages ruled at Wall Street banks. After crashing our economy, these too-big-to-fail banks needed the Bush administration and the American taxpayer to…

I rise in support of the confirmation of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. It is policymakers--not outside organizations, it is not political strategists, it is not anti-union activists, and it is not pro-union…

last month, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations, U.S. or multinational, are equivalent to people and should be able to spend an unlimited amount of company money on political campaigns. I bet the framers of our constitution could not…

a week or so ago we marked Earned- Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, a day to highlight a vital tool for Americans working their way out of poverty. These are challenging economic times. The costs of food, housing, transportation and, basic…

I rise to speak in support of the nomination of Patricia Smith, currently commissioner of labor for the State of New York, as the Solicitor of Labor. We just had a vote where, again, 40 people tried to block the nomination of a key…

Americans are disgusted that Wall Street can make or break our economy. So am I.