Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for 4 more minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

What is the answer to my question? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Seventeen minutes extra.

Mr. President, I have sought recognition to state my position on the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and to comment about the appropriate role of the Senate…

Mr. President, at the outset I wish to ascertain with precision that I have 20 minutes, as had been arranged with the floor monitors. I had looked for 30 but I ask consent I may speak for up to 20 minutes now. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is…

I ask unanimous consent I may have 30 minutes when the two votes which are scheduled for 2 o'clock conclude.

I will do it all at once. I don't want to truncate it. I ask unanimous consent that I may have the floor for 30 minutes at the conclusion of the two votes scheduled for 2 o'clock. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

I really cannot. I had started at 30 and 20 is tough. How early might I return for my 30 minutes?

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be given to Linda Hoffa, a detailee in my office, for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I thank the Presiding Officer, and I thank my distinguished colleague from Florida. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida. Mr. LeMIEUX. Mr. President, it is always good to follow my distinguished colleague from Pennsylvania and…

Finally, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a copy of an op-ed which I wrote which appeared in USA Today be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From…

Madam Speaker, I rise today as a lifelong resident of Howard, Pennsylvania, to honor its bicentennial. Howard, albeit a small community of almost 700, has an extensive history dating back to its settlers in the late 1700s. It was…

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the bill. But let me just say, Mr. Issa said that the Republicans wanted to be part of this. And I think we've got to start doing things in this institution in a bipartisan way. Quite frankly, I…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw both awareness and support for Therapeutic Recreation Week, which runs from July 11 to July 17. The purpose of recreational therapy is to restore, remediate and rehabilitate, all of which help to improve…

We've all been concerned about this issue, as you have, and I know the administration, at all levels, has.

I remain deeply concerned. I agree that you cannot talk about Afghanistan without talking about Pakistan.

As we developed the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009, I sought to include provisions that would ensure the United States has... a comprehensive strategy to eliminate terrorist threats.

If we simply say that an organization is a terrorist group or if we simply say it is a front for terrorism, that is not the same thing as saying this group provided the money and means for individuals to attempt to blow up the U.S. embassy…

The 9/11 Commission Staff Monograph on Terrorist Financing found al Qaeda was funded to the tune of approximately $30 million per year by divisions of money from Islamic charities.