Bob Casey

The tax on capital gains and dividends is far too low.

Even if we have substantial tax reform, we are not going to get anywhere close to solving this wage problem.

I complain loudly and frequently and will continue to complain when you have an authorization level for hospital preparedness, your program under your jurisdiction, when there's a huge gap in the tens of millions of dollars between…

One of the best things that the Congress did over the years was to not only authorize but fund the Hospital Preparedness Program.

The urgency that Senator Burr is talking about is essential and not just in the heat of the challenge or the crisis.

Thank you very much.

I certainly want to commend and salute the work of Senator Burr on these issues over many years in our working together.

I would agree, but thank you for highlighting that.

The biggest and most successful of the Federal Government's antipoverty programs next to Social Security, reducing the 2012 poverty rate by 3 percentage points and the poverty rate for children by 6.

Total deaths as of February 21 are 9,556, a huge number, and we are mindful of that today.

I hope we can continue to debate this and have legitimate disagreement. What I can't understand is the basic hostility to getting more information in front of people.

One of the concerns I have is that there seems to be a real hostility to modern forms of communication--email, telephone numbers, information like that that you would think that both sides would want to have the benefit of.

What I haven't heard a lot about here is voting. This Act is supposed to lead to a process where employees vote.

I've heard a number of words over and over again. I've heard the title of the hearing.

The rule forces a union election before an employer has a chance to figure out what's going on.

It is not only morally desirable, but economically good policy, because about two-thirds of our economy is fueled by consumer spending.

I think we all agree we need to simplify the tax code and make it more economically efficient.

Vaccination requirements are within the purview of State authority.

I am deeply concerned that so many parents in the United States are failing to vaccinate their children.

We must all recognize our personal and collective responsibility to get vaccinated, and to vaccinate our children, in the name of protecting those who are too young or medically unable to be vaccinated.

I urge you to have a strong, unified, bi-partisan voice supporting the scientific evidence that vaccines are safe and they save lives.

I know that in the debate about how to respond to the Ebola crisis, among the best pieces of advice we all got here was that local validators are a lot better than validators outside of a local area.

I look forward to working together to raise awareness in our communities of the importance of vaccination.

I think currency manipulation is both unfair and very damaging, and it is kind of a double insult if it is not raised.

Currency manipulation has not been addressed in the TPP negotiations.