We should fight to maintain it, including by rejecting efforts to impose the Solvency II accord, Europe's insurance capital rules, on our insurers.

It also establishes certainty about when U.S. standards will qualify as equivalent under Solvency II for U.S. insurers.

This agreement offers U.S. and EU reinsurers alike relief from both requirements to have a local presence and local collateral.

U.S.-EU unity is critical if multilateral sanctions on Russia are to continue to be effective.

Russia's interference in our election... poses a problem that goes far beyond foreign policy and strikes at the core of our democracy.

I would like to recognize my friend and colleague, Congressman Steve Stivers, and congratulate him on his promotion to brigadier general in the Ohio National Guard. Steve has served our State and our Nation in uniform for more than three…

the proposal from Senator Sherrod Brown and Representative Richard Neal would ensure that the updated credit kept a childless worker making poverty-level wages out of poverty

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise today on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy of the Big Branch Mine, where 29 mine workers were killed. There is no better way to ask this Senate to do the right thing on extending healthcare for mine…

I ask unanimous consent for 3 minutes--1 for Senator Donnelly, 1 for Senator Casey, and 1 for me. I thank Senator Boozman for the time to talk for 3 minutes on the mine workers healthcare law. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection…

Too many people here in Washington think that if the stock market is on the rise, the economy is doing just fine.

nearly 70 years ago today, the United States and 11 other nations--in the face of Soviet aggression--joined together in mutual defense to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. Since its inception, NATO has expanded to 28…

I always appreciate the remarks--the well- thought-through remarks of my colleague, and the history lesson putting it into context is always so important and something we should do more of in this body. I thank Senator Bennet for his…

What our business leaders lack is certainty.

Congress must take concrete action that focuses our limited resources on investing in hardworking families.

I rise in opposition to the title X CRA. It is just a continued abuse of power, something we have never seen in this body--one after another, after another, along party-line votes--to overturn rules and overturn decisions that this…

I ask unanimous consent that Melissa Rubenstein, a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

When we talk about economic growth, we need to talk about policies that help Americans' pocketbooks.

I hope that with the Committee's call for proposals we will be able to put some new ideas on the table that would gain broad and bipartisan support.

Rolling back Wall Street reform clearly does not fit the bill.

Legislation like Dodd-Frank is necessary to limit systemic risk and excesses of exploiting consumers.

Our financial system is more stable because of Wall Street reform, banks are better able to handle losses, and consumers are better protected from the types of predatory loans that led to the crisis.

Finance is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

So this is why Congress has to be concerned with this type of practice, and the growth of inequality means that Congress has to be concerned about the growth of the consumer base.

It is very important to focus on consumers and workers because that is the real economy.

The response from this Administration is not encouraging. It has been stocked with Wall Street executives who want to do a number on the law that holds their former firms accountable.