Madam President, I rise today to express my concerns with the Customs conference report. While I support the Customs provisions in this conference report, as well as the Internet tax moratorium, I cannot support the way these issues were…

I introduced the Family Stability and Kinship Care Act to prevent traumatic foster care stays by helping parents keep their children safely at home.

It's time to move Medicare away from a one-size-fits-all approach and begin doing more to take into account the individual needs of patients with chronic diseases.

I think you're seeing an opening for bipartisanship on an ACA initiative called section 1332.

Congress has a responsibility to take Medicare's historic guarantee and reinforce it for a new generation of Americans.

Making the expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit permanent as part of last year's tax deal is right up there with the ACA as some of the biggest anti-poverty achievements in decades.

Mr. President, I previously revised allocations, aggregates, and levels in the budget resolution pursuant to section 4305 of S. Con. Res. 11, the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, for H.R. 3762, the Restoring…

Mr. President, I would be remiss if I didn't rise during this debate on energy to address the administration's continuing efforts to wear down America's coal industry. As the Senate considers reform of our Nation's energy infrastructure…

The President has a huge influence. He is one third of our structure of Government.

Neither side is going to get 100 percent. I have got this 80-percent rule that I have worked under where there is usually common ground of about 80 percent.

What we need to find is that middle ground of the 80 percent, and we can get it done.

In my 20 years here, the only use that I have seen for that is for one party to beat up on the President's budget and the other party to proclaim the intelligence of that budget.