mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i want to thank my colleague from virginia, senator casey, senator brown, senator manchin. they have been relentless in putting this issue of justice for the miners in front of the finance committee. week after week, month after month, they have been saying when is this going to get done? when is the congress and particularly the senate going to step up and meet the needs that these workers richly deserve to have addressed? i mean, we have had documented again and again -- i heard senator casey talk about how difficult this work is. we have had that put in front of the senate finance committee, and yet there has been no action. now, senator warner is right. my home state of oregon does not mine coal. we do have a lot of communities with economies that over the years have been driven by natural resources. they've been up and down the boom and bust roller coaster. a lot of those communities are experiencing the very same kind of economic pain that you see in the mining towns that

mr. wyden: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call, madam president. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: last month the department of labor laid out new safeguards that will help middle-class savers in a rule pertaining to advice given by financial advisors. today the senate has taken up a resolution of approval -- or, excuse me -- of disapproval that will undo that progress. i urge my colleagues to oppose it. the senate ought to be doing everything it can to help middle-class workers to save for retirement. instead, this resolution would go in the opposite direction. workers from oregon and across the nation are facing a savings crisis. fewer and fewer people have access to the type of simple, reliable pensions that were once commonplace. the leave-it-to-beaver ideal of getting a job, and working your way up and retiring with a pension and a gold watch -- that is simply not the prospect in fr

mr. wyden: and in beginning i want to note that senator bennett, to of senator bennett's favorites are here on the floor this afternoon, senator feinstein and senator alexander. and what senator bennett liked so much about senator alexander and senator feinstein is what we've seen this afternoon. the two of them have a difference of opinion with respect i gather to the iran deal. i happen to share senator feinstein's view, but the two of them are trying to find common ground here in the senate. that's the senate at its best, and that's exactly what bob bennett liked so much about both my colleague from california and my colleague from tennessee. so i think it's very fitting that i open my remarks about senator bennett having listened once again to the chair, the ranking member, talk about how the senate is supposed to do business. and, madam president, beginning my comments about bob bennett, there's so many wonderful things to say, but i thought i'd begin by talking about senator bennett's fav