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I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Cowan), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Massachusetts (Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the…
Mr. President, I rise today to introduce America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2013. This legislation continues our commitment to preserve natural resources in this country. America's Red Rock Wilderness Act will designate as wilderness…
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Cowan), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Massachusetts ( Ms. Warren) are necessarily absent.
Mr. President, fifty years ago, when Bob Butler was sworn in as mayor of Marion, IL, the town was literally on fire. Just outside city hall, one of the largest fires in the city's history was raging. It may not have been, as Mayor Butler…
Madam President, I want to draw attention to the major flooding going on in Illinois at this moment, particularly in Chicago and its suburbs but not exclusively. It is affecting downstate as well. Hundreds of families have been evacuated…
Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change.
We need not look far to see the power of service.
We are making progress toward that goal.
Today, America is sending less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years.
We cannot afford to ignore what the overwhelming judgment of science tells us: that climate change is real and that it poses an urgent threat to our people and our planet.
As President, I'm confident that we have the courage and the resilience and the spirit to overcome these challenges.
If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorize us, well, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it.
Our vision is to have someone join the Navy and then retire, and the record all passes straight into the VA.
I understand that in Chicago, it is at 431 days, and we would want to shorten it, as you have laid out.
I hope, since we have very high level people here, to say to my colleague from Colorado that I was a very minor part of the U.S. delegation to the Kyoto climate change negotiations.
I'm just worried we'll return to the old Carter days of the entire Army squinting and shivering in buildings that are dim and are hot in the summer.