Mr. Speaker, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius seemed shocked to find that placing new mandates on health insurers leads to increased costs. After press reports last week indicated that insurers are raising premiums because…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Trade Imbalance

In the absence of any other Senator on the floor, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant editor of the Daily Digest proceeded to call the roll.

Madam President, today, passage of essential legislation to support job-creating business investment was relegated to callous political brinkmanship. For months, funding for the biodiesel and the research and development, R & D, tax…

Mr. Speaker, there are more than a dozen countries in this world that restrict freedom of religion, including Iran and China. Imagine being told your religion was unacceptable and being carted off to jail for offering a Bible to someone…

Madam Speaker, September 17 is Constitution Day. On that day in 1787, the Constitutional Convention met for the first time in Philadelphia to sign the document. It was then sent to 13 States to ratify. In a speech to the Senate in 1850…

putting restraints on stem cell research is not far from those who refused to look through Galileo's telescope

Well, just focus for a moment, if you would, on the $500 million already expended on embryonic stem cell research and what tremendous advances have been made there.

Mr. President, It has been my custom to make a report to the Congress, my constituents, and the general public when I return from a trip. I have sought recognition to speak about foreign travel I made to Beijing, Hanoi and Taipei from…

I look forward to debating with Senator Wicker the issues which he has raised more appropriately on the Senate floor than in this hearing.

the legislature, the Congress, had better get busy and it better act on this subject so we do not await court action

the evidence is overwhelming about the importance of embryonic stem cell research to deal with the maladies of the world

Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the members of the Penn State women's volleyball and the men's and women's fencing national championship teams were honored by the White House. They were two of the more than 30 National Collegiate Athletic…

This is a subject of enormous importance, and I regret that we have not had more time today to do it justice.

Mr. President, I have sought recognition to introduce the Stem Cell Research Advancement Act of 2010 on behalf of Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein, and myself. Some 21 days ago, in the United States District Court for the District of…

What would your advice be to women's organizations to persuade police commissioners, other than Commissioner Ramsey, to allow for transparency and allow for stakeholders to be involved in reviewing these cases?

The statistics are staggering. Over 20 million women, or 18 percent of all women in the United States, have been victims of rape.

The Criminal Law Subcommittee will now proceed with the hearing on the subject of rape.