Exports represent a huge economic opportunity to create jobs right here at home.

This is one of the highest priorities of this committee.

U.S. exports are an engine of economic growth and job creation.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the STEP Program, I would like to add my support to some key recommendations from SIDO.

exporting is not for wimps.

I rise to support the nomination of Salvador Mendoza, Jr., to be a district judge for the Eastern District of our State. I applaud the Senate Judiciary Committee for favorably reporting Mr. Mendoza's nomination on a bipartisan basis out of…

I ask unanimous consent that the time in quorum be equally divided between both sides. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise to express my disappointment in today's earlier vote, that we weren't able to pass the student refinancing legislation. I thank my colleague Senator Warren for sponsoring that bill and for my colleagues who did support it. I hope we…

Removing the award caps for the WOSB program in 2013, which this committee supported, was a great improvement.

I think measuring, having some assessment, even if you can just on that portfolio of packages that have been approved on this program, I think would give us some understanding about what the market demand is, so to speak, for SBA loans…

The men and women who serve our nation deserve the best opportunities and care when they return home.

We want to see more veterans have a chance to become entrepreneurs, to open up businesses and create jobs.

Okay. And, do you have any comments on the waiving of the fee on the financial side that Mr. Proulx and other people have testified to?

I come to the floor this afternoon to thank my colleagues who have signed on to a letter to the NFL asking that they change the name of the Washington football team. I also thank Leader Reid for his leadership on this issue and for trying…

I think energy markets are the lifeblood of any economy.

That's for the State to decide, correct, whether it's----

Exxon CEO says Wall Street is driving up gas prices by 50 percent.

I think it's important that somehow the long arm of a FERC Commissioner could come down and make that decision.

We do not want to go slow, we want to go faster.

I hope we will run faster on that.

We do not want to see proposals that some of my colleagues are proposing on Social Security or Medicare to privatize them.

thank you for your time in the Pacific Northwest: 10 years as the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Global Development.

Obviously the changing climate is causing, you know, rainfall records that people never anticipated.

The President's budget doesn't fully reflect what they're requesting for the Federal assistance.

I am glad to join my colleague, the senior Senator, to commemorate a great Washingtonian whom we lost last week, Billy Frank, Jr. Senator Murray and I were able to attend his memorial service yesterday in the South Puget Sound area with…