It's always an honor to be here and to be speaking on the floor where so many who have served this country so honorably and well have done the same thing. I never lose sight of that fact. It gets a little discouraging at times. It's…

I thank my colleagues for their remarks. It is worthy of all of us giving most serious consideration. Perhaps we have been too silent in failing to criticize some of the activities of Russia. We want to be friends with them, but good…

Mr. President, the Judiciary Committee is now reviewing the record of Elena Kagan, President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. The truth is, her legal record is thin. She has never been a judge and has very limited experience even in…

Mr. President, how much time remains on this side? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Six and a half minutes.

Mr. President, since Ms. Kagan was nominated, President Obama and his administration have attempted to defend not only her discriminatory treatment of the military at Harvard but to do so through misleading and even untrue statements…

I thank the Chair, and I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the e-mails I made reference to earlier. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: To: Sullivan, John, Mr., DoD OGC…

Mr. President, I see our distinguished colleague from Pennsylvania on the Senate floor, and I know he expects to speak for a little more extended time. He has graciously allowed me to go first. ____________________

Mr. President, I rise to speak briefly on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, this vacancy is being left by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens. The President has the constitutional prerogative to…

Mr. President, the legislation we have before us today and have been working on is problematic. It is just not healthy because it is going to increase the debt to a significant degree. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the…

Mr. President, I ask to be recognized to speak in morning business and to be notified at 7 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I thank the Acting President pro tempore and will wrap up. There is so much to be said about this. But I just wish to point out how the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is a complete shell game. It is an absolute double counting of money…

Well, I thank my friend from Iowa so much. In fact, I had some dear friends--and I, actually, have them here present--one whom my wife and I taught in Sunday school 20 years or so ago and who is here with her mom. Anyway, she was saying…

Madam President, I wish to thank Senator LeMieux for raising this matter. I was at the Alabama gulf coast on Friday. We were told there was a batch of oil 30 feet wide, 2 miles long that they could see coming onto the shores of the beaches…

Well, has the Senator ascertained that anybody in our government is scouring the world and the United States to try to move every single skimmer that could possibly be brought to the gulf coast? If not, we are awfully late, wouldn't the…

Does the Senator understand that Admiral Allen has the power--or the President does--to enter into Jones Act waivers that need to be entered into, and that presumably could be done in a matter of minutes or hours? What is holding this up…

Before the Senator leaves, I will ask a question to my colleague, because he has come to this lately. He might share with us-- the Senator has had personal conversations with Admiral Allen, the point person, about this for some time, has…

Our Governor has called up 300 National Guardsmen, and I think it needs to be done under title 32, which is Federal status under State control. The President on Tuesday evening said: I have authorized the deployment of over 17,000 National…