Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation, to honor the memory of Ana Solis, 46 years of age when she was a victim of gun violence, who never received a moment of…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro). Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, we are here again today because the American people are demanding action; they are begging us to stop the killing. And I urge my Republican…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation, to honor the memory of Sheree Barker, age 24, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, a victim of gun violence who never received a…

they often do not, and I gave the example of Colorado...

there are still environmental impacts and public health impacts for--from methane emissions?

natural gas is still a fossil fuel, right?

The treatment that Baha'i receive in their own country is deplorable. It deserves to be condemned by all responsible nations.

Mr. Speaker, there is a public health emergency in our country. Are you thinking of Zika? Are you thinking of opioids? Yes, they are public health emergencies, but there is another ongoing, long- term public health emergency, and that is…

That will be fine. I have absolutely no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, today we have made important progress on a piece of legislation that we refer to with another one of those funny sounding names. In this case, it is WRDA. It is spelled W-R-D-A. That stands for the Water Resources…

Let me just add a P.S. on Zika funding, which was discussed here earlier today. We had a bipartisan roundtable in the Homeland Security Committee on Zika funding not long ago. Two reasons we need to resolve this funding issue are, No. 1…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak, I suppose out of turn. I understand the Republicans, the majority, have control of the floor. I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes, since there are no other majority Senators. The…

Mr. President, I like to tell the story about a Senate Finance Committee hearing about 2 years ago when we had a bunch of very smart people who came in to talk to us about this: What are we going to do about reducing the deficit? We…

I thank the Senator from Tennessee. As he knows, I am a huge fan of his. I have been for a long time. I respect him as a colleague, I respected him as a Governor, and I respected him long before that when he was a principal aide to Howard…

There are always efforts of one country playing off against another, one set of companies playing off one country against another to try to weaken rules.

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from West Virginia, and I thank our colleague Senator Capito. Last week I joined Senator Manchin, Senator Capito, and others to speak to hundreds of coal miners rallying on the lawn right outside the…

It would devastate those pools, because you would have the healthy holding out until they got sick.

We need to bring down the cost of health care.