I want to thank our panel for your presence today and your work on these issues.

We know how important it is to our future economy, frankly, that we have a healthy workforce ready to go to work.

I think your conclusion is correct, that there ought to be some exemption for minimum distribution requirements, say $100,000, that can be taken out without its being required to be taken out.

We all know--I have worked up here for 12 years--things happen in Congress, and, if we wait until next year...

As a native Pennsylvanian, you know a lot about what is going on in CHIP in Pennsylvania.

Experience has proved that protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce from injury, impairment, or interruption.

I would argue that there are at least four reasons, either individually or conjunctively, that would warrant you staying.

I understand that S. 2709, introduced earlier today by Senator Manchin, is at the desk and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The assistant legislative clerk read…

I now ask for a second reading and object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for the second time on the next legislative day. ____________________

I rise to speak about a topic that we don't talk about enough, which is what is happening in Afghanistan with regard to women and girls. I know the senior Senator from Arizona was speaking about Syria before I had recognition, and I am…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:26 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 31, 2014, at 9:30 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 31, 2014; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

Senators will be notified when any votes are scheduled. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Children in Need

I am especially grateful to the senior Senator from Connecticut for his words tonight and the challenge those words present to us. We are grateful for his efforts to stand for children. I rise tonight to speak about children here in the…

Thank you very much for your testimony.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and I especially appreciate your efforts to have this hearing, which is a topic that we don't discuss enough, and it's at a time when families are still stressed, even though we're in a recovery, and a lot of…

I would say increasing investments in the CDFI Fund, and focusing those efforts and those resources in a more targeted way on persistently impoverished and underserved communities.

I cannot, nor can anyone in our State, be satisfied with these numbers when you consider that the African American population as a percent of the adult population in our State is 10.4 percent, yet the unemployment rate is 12.4.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to thank Vice Chair Klobuchar for having this hearing on a very important set of topics to focus on.

We have not been able to get agreement on it, but I think all of us know if kids learn more now they are going to earn more later.

I understand that S. 2648, introduced earlier today by Senator Mikulski, is at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as…

I ask unanimous consent that the Rules Committee be discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 40, and the Senate proceed to its consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration, en bloc, of the following resolutions, which were submitted earlier today: S. Res. 514, S. Res. 515, and S. Res. 516. There being no objection, the Senate…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations: Calendar Nos. 934 through 951 and all nominations placed on the Secretary's desk in the Air Force, Army, and Navy; that the…