We also ask that the committee consider including funding for our acequia resilience and Tribal acequia program.

I request that the committee authorize an additional $5 million for the Tribal Partnership Program.

As we consider the 2022 Water Resources Development Act, many of you know, our West and our communities across the Southwest are gripped by the worst drought that we have seen in 1,200 years.

I urge that the committee consider authorizing an additional $200 million to the Bureau of Reclamation.

Americans are confused about how to best protect themselves and their communities from the spread of COVID.

scientists tend to talk in a different language than regular people can understand. It's kind of a mismatch between those who communicate and those who want to be communicated with not talking the same language.

What barriers are preventing the Federal Government from providing N95 or KN95 masks to the public free of charge?

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the…

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 4:56 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at 11 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 11 a.m., Wednesday, January 5; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess until 2:15 p.m. to allow for the weekly caucus meetings. There being no objection, the Senate, at 11:58 a.m., recessed until 2:15 p.m. and reassembled when called to order by the Presiding…

Today I rise in support of the Finish the Wall Act, for which I am a proud cosponsor. By the end of this year, 2 million people will have tried to cross our borders illegally. That is more than or almost as many people as the State I…

I think it is very important for the Committee's wishes to be respected, which are done in a bipartisan way.

We are separate sovereigns, with inherent plenary authority over our reservations. No one can take that away from us.

Today, I rise to honor a great friend of mine, a true patriot in New Mexico, Representative Dianne Hamilton, who passed away very recently at the age of 87 after serving for 18 years in the New Mexico House. Dianne was more than a…

The future that Washington described was not one where Congress dictated to us how to conduct ourselves on our own land.

Additional Federal funding is critical for tribal public safety generally, and particularly for tribes that opt to exercise VAWA special criminal jurisdiction.

I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, and I will say thank you for whatever our tribes can get.