It is important to mention Texas here, too.

Is there anything that we do here, or can do by way of WIA or otherwise, legislation or strategies that we can employ here that will incentivize or foster that kind of, I guess for lack of a better word, engagement between the particular…

We need a two-pronged approach to address this problem.

I rise today to discuss the Senate's upcoming trade agenda and its impact on Pennsylvania workers and Pennsylvania jobs. Like so many of our States, Pennsylvania has always played a critically important role in America's manufacturing and…

I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read the second time on the next…

the majority leader filed cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1323. Unless further agreement is reached, this vote will be on Thursday. ____________________

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 6:14 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at 10 a.m…

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

I understand that there is a bill 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 as follows: A bill (S. 1326) to implement…

it goes without saying that the history of the American evolution is a major chapter of our Nation's history, of American history. Yet currently there is no single place where a person can go which tells the American story from its…

I find it humorous sitting here on the Foreign Relations Committee, the most deliberative body in the world some say.

I appreciate your work on that and your reporting back when you raised the issue with the Pakistani leadership.

we are working on an agreement for consideration of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act. We will notify Senators when votes are scheduled. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 22; that following the prayer and the pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be…

Currency manipulation is costing our workers jobs, and it needs to be stopped.

Manufacturing employment peaked in the United States in 1979 at 19.6 million workers. Today we are down to 11.7 million.

It is time to crack down on China's currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices so that American companies and workers have a fair shot.

Even though our manufacturing employment has declined significantly since the 1970s, the U.S. remains the world's manufacturing leader.

It is time for that to change, and changing means charting a new manufacturing strategy which will strengthen our economy and help create new jobs and new opportunities.

The Treasury Department can do more.

This is--if it is not the key thing we have got to do, it is in the top two or three.

I think we need to see Congress step up to the plate.

Since the end of 2009, manufacturing has added 250,000 jobs approximately.

We must extend trade adjustment assistance to help workers who have lost their jobs based upon unfair foreign competition.

The unfortunate reality is that our trade policies have failed to protect our workers from unfair trade practices.