Mr. President, I rise today to honor the life and service of Sgt. Benjamin C. Edinger, USMC, on the occasion of the dedication of a city trail in the city of Green Bay, in my home State of Wisconsin. On Saturday, October 19, 2013, a…

And we also as a full Committee have larger responsibilities for the integrity of the program that we are talking about in the Social Security Administration, that the right reforms and oversight need to be in place to prevent these sort…

I look at the responsibility of this Committee and think at the very specific level of the investigation before us our responsibility is to do whatever we can to make sure that people who would abuse this program for their own personal…

Mr. President, I have come to the floor today to deliver a message from the people of Wisconsin. They are fed up with the political games that are being played here in Washington. They have had enough. On Tuesday, Congress failed the…

Mr. President, I have come to the floor today to speak about the divisive and irresponsible path down which some Members of Congress wish to take our country. Last week my former Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives…

It's one of the key issues that we need to grapple with if we are going to transform to a high-quality and lower-cost healthcare system.

I appreciate your providing a number of hearings on the draft legislation that you and the Ranking Member have introduced.

A century ago, Wisconsin passed the Nation's first workers' compensation program. Interestingly, it was under Governor Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., who at one point was a U.S. Senator in the seat that I now have the distinct honor of holding.

How will students benefit from changes that we are discussing today?

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Collins, for holding this really important hearing.

I want to focus my question on a concern I raised with you last week with regard to a property in Wisconsin that we refer to as the Badger Army Ammunition Plant.