I do not believe the bill would advance the public interest.

This is because the bill would deprive discrimination victims of any meaningful remedy in these same-action cases.

The bill incorrectly asserts that the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Gross v. FBL Financial Services eliminated protection for many individuals.

The answer is lawyers, not victims of discrimination, not unions and not employers.

I am rising in support of the nominee. Any delays that there have been have not been for this particular nominee, nor by the Wyoming delegation at all. This is a position that has been open now for over 2 years. The first nominee for this…

The bill is overly broad, vague and ambiguous and may open up a Pandora's Box of litigation.

We simply cannot afford to lose those students.

The success of our Nation's middle and high schools is vital in preparing our students for the 21st century economy.

We need to strengthen programs that provide relevance, context and rigor for students in both middle and high school.

Every day in the United States, 7,000 students drop out of school.

I rise today to discuss the need to closely examine our United States Constitution and Congress's limits held within this important document. Our Founding Fathers granted Congress limited powers within the Constitution, and we should not…

I appreciate that. I am not real familiar with that because I am from a very rural area.

It is also tremendous what the United States does, as opposed to a number of other countries which start kicking kids out of school regardless of special needs at a very early age.

I want to start by applauding the work of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers in the development of the Common Core standards.

I have to tell you, all of that really bothers me.

There is a program that's working very well, and that's the VPP program, the Voluntary Participation Program.

I rise today to introduce legislation with Senator Landrieu known as the Voluntary Protection Program Act. This bill will codify the Voluntary Protection Program, or VPP, expand it to include more small businesses, and incorporate recent…

I helped to get the Post Office under OSHA when I first got here and called for inspections in my office on a regular basis.

What kind of message does it send to penalize members?

As a Senator from a State whose primary industry is energy production, my heart goes out to the families and communities that lost those hard-working Americans this month.

I have to agree with what I've heard here. I would mention that, in the Budget Committee last week, the Administration plan to defund the VPP program was unanimously rejected.

Yes, I have been down in an underground mine, but I know that most people have not.

The Upper Big Branch Mine is the worst accident in 40 years, and 29 people lost their lives.

If we drop that, how much of the extra resources are we going to need just to take care of the ones that we're going to be neglecting, who does do a good job.

Perhaps out of the tragic accidents that have taken the lives of 29 men in West Virginia, 7 in Senator Murray's home State of Washington and left 11 missing off the coast of Louisiana, we can build a new commitment to keeping workplaces…