Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an article written by Mallory Factor and published in Forbes magazine. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Occupy…

Mr. President, I rise to speak on behalf of the North American Energy Security Act of 2011. This is legislation I am sponsoring, along with Senator Lugar, Senator Vitter, Senator Johanns, and 37 other cosponsors--we already have 37…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. North American Energy Security Act of 2011

Mr. President, the Senate is not in order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will be in order. Please take your conversations from the well. The Senator from Rhode Island is once again recognized.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 2, a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This is a challenging time in the life of our Nation. Our economy is struggling under the failed economic…

I did yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from California. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.

Very well. I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, the middle class of this country doesn't need a higher payroll tax, more dirty air, dirty water, fewer workers' rights; and they certainly don't need more partisan gridlock in…

It is my honor to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California, the ranking member of the Education and Workforce Committee, Mr. Miller. (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I thank the gentlelady for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill. Mr. Speaker, with this rule and underlying bill, Congress…

I thank the gentlelady from New York. Mr. Speaker, I have to voice my opposition to an insidious provision that has been added to this bill at the last minute by agribusiness and the frozen food industry, and that is a change that allows…

Mr. President, last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on whether to elevate the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This was an important hearing for the men and women of our armed…

Mr. President, I rise today to speak about the fossil energy funding in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Fossil energy is a critical resource that we should not and can not just throw away. Providing the majority of our energy, we…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and to call up amendment No. 1120. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator…

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, said that our worst enemy was not any foreign power or al Qaeda--rather, that it's our own national debt. That's right. It's official now. Congress has become basically America's…

It has been 4 days since the CBS News program ``60 Minutes'' ran a troubling piece on insider trading in this very House. Mr. Speaker, you and I and our colleagues are the only people in this august body today who are exempt from insider…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To exclude cases in which pregnancy is the result of an act of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this conference report, which includes the fiscal year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. I want to thank my colleague and ranking…

``General Electric, the Nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010.'' These were the opening words of a March 24 New York Times article. The article continued to explain that GE paid zero taxes in the U.S. in 2010…