Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I don't know why we are even here debating this issue, which is an important issue, but not a prevailing issue. This is an issue that concerns one industry. It is a…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about an important issue that faces our society: domestic violence and sexual abuse. Violence against women is a worldwide but underexamined problem. Sadly, we are still far from a world where women are…

Mr. Speaker, I have no additional speakers right now. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4557 is an unnecessary bill that would set a terrible precedent. As the Statement of Administration Policy, which outlines the justification for President Obama's…

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The gentleman from Illinois has 21\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Kentucky has 22\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Speaker, America and the world lost an indefatigable champion, a distinguished gentleman, and a charismatic friend with the death of James V. Kimsey this past Tuesday. Jim was larger than life. Everything Jim touched has become part of…

Mr. President, earlier this week and last week I joined a number of my colleagues on the floor and spoke at length about the need for our fellow Senators on the other side of the aisle to do something simple--to do their jobs. The…

I thank the Presiding Officer. Earlier this week and last I spoke at length about the need for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to do their job and to move forward with hearings and an up-or-down vote on whomever the President…

Mr. Speaker, this is pure Vermont maple syrup made at a family farm, Maverick Farm, by friends and neighbors Arthur and Anne Berndt. People love it. Sugar makers from Maine to Michigan, it is a labor of love and real additional income in…

Mr. Speaker, I ran for Congress on the idea of no budget, no pay. If Congress can't do its job and pass a budget, they don't deserve a paycheck. No hardworking American gets paid for not doing their job. So why should we? Just a few months…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Coons, for his leadership on this very important topic. I could not agree with him more that we need to fund the IAEA, that we need to confirm Adam Szubin for the position of Under…

Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of amendment No. 3391 to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015. I am proud to join Senator Daines in filing this important amendment. The Daines-Peters amendment would make it…

Mr. President, I take this time to explain four amendments that I have filed and would like to make pending on S. 524. I understand we are in a position now that we need consent in order to have these amendments pending. I am not going to…

Mr. President, I want to join my colleague from Ohio, Senator Brown, in his message about our responsibility to do our job. It is very simple: Do our job. Do what the people of our State elected us to do. Senator Brown is absolutely…

Madam President, last Thursday I was on the floor honoring the victims of the mass shooting in Kalamazoo, MI, another shooting spree that left six people dead and two others injured, and on that very same day another shooting spree broke…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the role. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin is a growing public health epidemic that is taking a heartbreaking toll on families and communities in every State of this country. In 2014, more than 47,000…

Mr. President, I thank my colleague and our ranking member on the Judiciary Committee not only for his friendship and his articulateness but his great work on this issue. Just as the President has a constitutional responsibility to name a…