Jeff Merkley

The Federal Government should expand its financing capabilities, that is, offering greater credit to State and local governments.

I have sponsored a bill called 'WIFIA', or the Water Infrastructure Financing Innovation Act.

So in short, if concentration of wealth at the top was the key, we would have more jobs now than ever before.

We must not, however, take the sector for granted. America needs to think strategically about how we prepare our workforce...

The difference of that 20 percent means that millions of families across America who had the American dream in their hand... are now seeing that dream crumble and slip through their fingers.

Their driving goals for a better life is what motivates me every day to fight for them here in Washington.

Let us reform the Tax Code. Let us rein in wasteful Federal spending.

We have to end the fear and uncertainty that most Nevadans are facing.

Washington, DC, is still failing to create an environment where private businesses are able to create robust job growth.

Creating jobs and fixing this broken economy has always been my highest priority.

America does well when the middle class does well.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:17 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at 10 a.m…

There will be a rollcall vote at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Additionally, the official photograph of the 113th Congress will be at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow. ____________________

I certainly am very supportive of that.

I must say, there is an ecstatic community in John Day, Oregon and the Forest Service was instrumental in developing the innovation of using a service contract rather than a harvest contract to have that 10-year plan.

Thank you very much for your support and advocacy of changing the way that we address funding of fighting forest fires.

I want to encourage the Forest Service to find a way to complete that commitment to the community.

This is the American dream just slipping through our fingers for millions of working Americans.

There is a growing conversation about whether or not there is really a pathway for children to succeed.

I support more Pell grants. I support tuition freezes. I support low interest rates on student loans.

The 2015 proposals take the discretionary grant funds from 10 percent of the budget to 16 percent of the budget, which is the opposite of the direction my school districts would like to see us go.

And I will just use this occasion to continue my urging that--I was very pleased that the Senate, on a bipartisan, 2-to-1 basis, said it was time to end discrimination in the workplace.

They're very concerned that they're not getting the intention or the speed, and for these small trawlers to get observers flown in from other cities, San Francisco or Seattle, extremely inconvenient, extremely expensive.

I would like to see the Department of Labor convert the experimental CPI-E into a fully official published index.

I wish there would be a vote. There should be a vote on something as key to our Constitution as equality and opportunity.