If we turn the clock back just a little bit, the pools that were utilized in the CDOs and CDO-squared...

I thank Senator Landrieu very much for her leadership as chair of the Small Business Committee. She has put in countless hours working with the national small business community and asking what the key obstacles are and how can we help to…

Oregon is one of 17 States where manufacturing makes up more than 10 percent of employment. It is a source of good-paying, stable jobs except when those jobs go to Mexico or Asia.

But how do you go about holding countries accountable that are creating barriers to favor their own companies to the disadvantage of the United States?

One of the things that we keep confronting are nontariff barriers to American manufactured products.

Well, I will conclude with one last question, and that is, up through about the mid-1970s, as productivity increased, the wages of working Americans increased.

I wish to speak to the proceedings that have just taken place this evening and try to put them in some context. What we have had before this Chamber is a bill that is very important to putting the American economy back on track. Lots of…

the loss of manufacturing jobs may well be one of the most profound impacts upon the well-being of our children.

this represents a huge threat to the future of our children.

clearly children's play habits have changed dramatically.

Thank you and thank you for your efforts, and I hope the Administration will continue to pursue this, especially after we get the results of this study from the FDA of these products.

school athletic extracurricular activities that were free... now have activity fees throughout our Nation.

I also rise to discuss provisions of this bill and would like to begin by saying, when one gets into the details, you see there is a spectacular array of provisions that have been put together by the Small Business Committee to assist…

What we all have come to learn time and time again is that the issues faced in childhood very much set a course for a person's life and disproportionately so, so that they deserve a great deal of our attention.

if you do not get those kids starting every day, obviously if you lose 4,000 smokers a day, you would be out of business pretty quickly

the Citizens United case has aimed a dagger at the heart of American democracy. So I rise today in support of the DISCLOSE Act, to stop that dagger aimed at our heart. Our Nation is unique in world history in that it was founded not on…

I think it is critical that we get this right.

I think that this is really important because we need to make sure the public feels that they can completely trust the food supply.

Thank you all very much for your testimony.

The point is not to save banks. The point is to get lending, to get capital into the hands of small businesses. ... That is the beauty of this public-private partnership; we are channeling, we are connecting to the power and wisdom of the…

I wish to start simply by recognizing the tremendous work the chair of the Small Business Committee is doing in championing commonsense strategies to assist our small businesses in being the job factories that they can be if they have…

Those workers on that Transocean rig were raising concerns, and within BP, we expect workers to raise concerns.

How can one company account for 97 percent of the egregious and willful violations handed out by OSHA if safety is their top concern?

If you look at the incidents that occurred before Deepwater Horizon and the incidents like this that occurred afterwards, do you see a pattern of shortcuts related to safety?

Do you really believe with all your heart you can tell the families of the workers who died... that you have set aside profit to do everything for safety as your top priority?