I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 6, 2014; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved…

I ask unanimous consent the HELP Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 102 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the…

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…

I certainly am very supportive of that.

I rise in this Chamber to address an issue that is critical to working families across our Nation; that is, the Federal minimum wage. First, I thank Senator Tom Harkin for his leadership on this issue. He has advocated year after year…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 ask that Alexandra Merrill, my intern, be given floor privileges for the duration of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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

Last month, I joined more than 200 Members in the House and Senate to send a letter to President Obama renewing our request that the President issue an Executive order banning contractors from receiving Federal Government contracts unless…

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

It seems like every 3 months, we have another major scandal, and these scandals involve wrongdoing.

Well, I'm just asking you to make your agency as visible as possible with OMB for their review to be completed.

The whole point being that the tobacco industry understands that you have to addict children because adults don't pick up tobacco products and start using them.

We passed this act in June 2009. And it took 4 years and 4 months for the FDA to send it to OMB which, to me, is an egregious amount of time.

Have we reached a different point now? Have we successfully tackled the issue of 'too big to fail' and its close cousin, which is more in your realm, of 'too big to jail'?

I applaud my colleague from Ohio for his stories from his home State on the families who have been dramatically impacted by the broken bridge between a lost job and the next job. Indeed, in my home State there are about 26,000 folks who…

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

I was very pleased that the Senate, on a bipartisan, 2-to-1 basis, said it was time to end discrimination in the workplace.