The current PDUFA authorization expires September 30, 2012, and it is my intention to have the reauthorization legislation signed into law by June 30 of next year.

If PDUFA is not reauthorized, this study estimates that 130,000 to 260,000 jobs would be lost.

Americans are the most innovative people on Earth.

The American people expect and have a right to expect that the Federal Government is doing everything possible to ensure that drugs on the market are safe and effective.

Patients, including those with life-threatening diseases, are willing to tolerate additional risk in order to try these new drugs.

Mr. Speaker, China recently rolled out the red carpet, pictured behind me, for Sudanese President Omar Bashir, an internationally indicted war criminal facing charges on 10 counts, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer of…

Mr. President, the majority leader filed cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 1323. Unless further agreement is reached, this vote will be on Thursday. ____________________

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, July 6; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning…

Mr. President, I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read the second time on…

Mr. President, I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:14 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, July 6…

Mr. President, it goes without saying that the history of the American evolution is a major chapter of our Nation's history, of American history. Yet currently there is no single place where a person can go which tells the American story…

I find it humorous sitting here on the Foreign Relations Committee, the most deliberative body in the world some say.

The first energy title was created in the 2002 Farm Bill, and it was designed to help develop feedstock for renewables fuels.

Thirty-seven programs in the farm bill do not have a budget baseline beyond the expiration of the current farm bill.

Many of these programs, such as the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, were created with the purpose of fostering the creation of the next generation of advanced biofuels.

I think the data you report really shows that we have made great progress within the Chesapeake Bay.

I wasn't aware of that actually. That is in my backyard for the most part.