We joined Sens. Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thune (R-SD) to introduce the bipartisan Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act.

Thank you all for being here and for all your efforts and service.

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the following nominations en bloc: Calendar Nos. 46 through No. 52, No. 82 through No. 107, No. 110 through No. 113, No. 130 through No. 139; that the nominations be…

It is so wonderful to have a neighbor in this job and somebody who I know understands the challenges that we are facing out in Colorado.

China is rapidly becoming a geopolitical foe whose policies... are often at odds with basic American principles.

This is one of the most amazing hearings I have heard.

We need good information, and we need regulatory procedures that are not only clear, but predictable.

We need to streamline applications, we need to reduce the burden of our small towns and rural communities.

We owe it to the agriculture producers in this country who are actually just trying to do the right thing.

I have been around this long enough to know that the Department is full of well-intentioned people, whether they are in Washington or whether they are out in Colorado.

It is so wonderful to have a neighbor in this job and somebody who I know understands the challenges that we are facing out in Colorado.

I do not think this is how our Rural Development programs should function.

We have got to realign the incentives at the Department so that we are being timely and being responsive and being flexible.

That shouldn't be the case. I say that because that is an aberration of capitalism.

This is one of the most amazing hearings I have heard.

I want to say thank you to my colleagues from Alabama and Kansas for being out here on the floor today. I regret that we are here with this conflict and this confrontation, but I think that it reflects the deep divisions that exist in this…

I rise today to recognize the extraordinary public service career of Dr. Alan S. Rudolph as he concludes his tenure as vice president for research at Colorado State University--CSU--one of the Nation's top research universities. Dr…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 11; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…