Madam President, I think that as human beings, we have a tendency to try to avoid thinking about horrifying situations. Who wants to think about, focus on things that are painful and terrible? But whether we like it or not, there is…

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

Mr. President, for some reason that I do not fully understand, it always appears to me that the more important the issue, the less it gets discussed here in the Congress and in the media--more important, less discussion. And today I want…

Mr. President, I would like to take a few minutes to discuss a matter of enormous consequence that is not being adequately covered in the mainstream media nor here in the Senate, and that is, right now, today, in Gaza, we are witnessing…

Madam President, one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history is now unfolding before our eyes in Gaza today--right now. And we, as the government of the United States, are complicit. It has been 4 months since Hamas's…

One year of his entire pension would have paid for 1 year, and he died from lung cancer.

Would it have been consistent with Judge Merck's philosophy to take research funded by my father's tax dollars?