Herb Kohl: “I want to congratulate you for the superb job you and your staff have done in guiding this Subcommittee last year.”

I rise today to thank Rabbi Baruch Frydman- Kohl for his invocation this morning and welcome him and his beloved wife Josette to the Senate. Rabbi Baruch's father Jack and my father Max were brothers and Europeans during the First World…

Dementia, despite not being recognized a terminal illness several years ago, is now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

we know taxes are scheduled to increase for all Americans next year, and we know an across-the-board tax increase on all Americans would be very bad for our economy. What we disagree on is which tax cuts should be continued. Unfortunately…

now is the time to be more aggressive, I believe, in your approach to unemployment.