before the Senator leaves the floor, I wish to also note that Senator Schumer has provided leadership on another very important enforcement issue. He introduced the committee to something a number of years ago known as honey laundering…

with the votes that have been cast today in the Senate, the Senate has begun to develop a powerful and bipartisan message that the trade policy of the 1990s will be unacceptable in 2015. The Customs and Enforcement package passed this…

if I could make my remarks about trade, Chairman Hatch has graciously allowed me to make a few comments at this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.

before I speak on the trade legislation-- and the distinguished chairman of the committee is on the floor as well--I wish to note that the Finance Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Hatch, has already passed a version of this…

I also ask unanimous consent to be able to equally divide the time spent in quorum calls. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

today the Senate is formally kicking off the trade debate here in the Senate. What I intend to do, starting today and in the days ahead, is to come back to what I think needs to be the central statement of this discussion; that is, the…

I want colleagues to know that once again Chairman Hatch is stepping up and providing real leadership on one of the great challenges of our time.

Before he leaves the floor, I want to thank Senator Brown for again and again putting in front of the committee and all Senators the importance of this issue. I just want to read a sentence from the paper yesterday that really puts a human…

It's time for both parties to tackle this issue head on.

I also want to point out that last month the Congress took an important step by ending the broken Sustainable Growth Rate formula.

It is time for both parties to tackle this issue head on.

I would first like to thank Chairman Hatch for his leadership on this critical issue.

Community health workers have become an increasingly important part of our health system post-ACA.

I think it is aligning incentives--I agree with Dr. Miller--with accountability at the provider level for cost of care and quality of outcomes.

before the Senator leaves the floor, I want to thank the Senate majority leader for working with us in a constructive fashion to make it possible for all of the vital parts of the trade package to be considered. I look forward to working…

I'm especially pleased to be teaming up with Chairman Hatch on a plan that begins with a working group and ends with legislation passing out of this committee.

Now, you have a patient with diabetes and perhaps a heart problem, and they are involved with four doctors, and they have six prescriptions.

reserve component members, who answer the call to active duty and served under similar conditions as their active counterparts, deserve to have their service equally honored.

I listened carefully to the remarks of the Senate majority leader, and I believe the majority leader's statement provides potential--potential--to find the bipartisan common ground on trade that we found in the Senate Finance Committee. In…

FRA wants to thank Senators Ron Wyden, (Ore.), and John Boozman, (Ark.), for introducing the 'GI Bill Fairness Act' (S. 602) that would ensure wounded Guardsmen and Reservists receive the GI Bill benefits they've earned.

the majority leader has entered a motion to reconsider the trade legislation. I want to be clear, both for the majority leader and all our colleagues here, that I am very interested in working with the majority leader and our colleague…

today I am proud to introduce the Bioenergy Act of 2015. Managed in an environmentally responsible way, woody biomass presents a carbon-neutral alternative to fossil fuels for heating and powering homes, schools and businesses. Much of the…

today I am proud to introduce the Smart Grid Act of 2015. America's trillion-dollar electricity grid is ill-equipped to meet the needs of the future. Grid outages and interruptions are estimated to cost taxpayers $150 billion annually…

today I rise to introduce the PURPA PLUS Act. In my home State we have numerous emerging small renewable energy technologies, such as wave energy buoys, hydropower turbines in irrigation canals, biomass burning cogeneration facilities and…

when my colleagues and I went to college, things were a lot different. Our colleagues took out loans, but those loans were manageable, and there were jobs waiting after graduation. Today, too often, that is simply not the case. In fact…