I have just heard repeatedly from veterans and mental health care experts with specialization in providing care to veterans that it can be life-changing in a positive way for a lot of veterans.

I just wanted to thank the majority leader for his very generous comments, as well as acknowledge the good wishes and congratulations from so many of my colleagues, including my colleague from Maine, Senator King. This is a momentous…

I want to join so many of my colleagues and the majority leader in congratulating my individual colleague from the State of Maine on this extraordinary achievement. I once was at a meeting with Senator Collins in Maine and had just gotten…

I thank my colleague and friend, Chairman McGovern, for yielding me this time. Mr. Chair, I rise to support Chairman McGovern's amendment. As members of the Food is Medicine working group, one of our priorities has been highlighting the…

I rise today to introduce the Educational Opportunity and Success Act, a bill to strengthen the Federal TRIO Programs and improve their administration. Across the Nation, TRIO helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds gain access to a…

I have 7 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I really appreciated all of your remarks and testimony.

I am also a certified organic farmer, so I am well aware of these challenges...

along with my colleagues, Senators Jacky Rosen, Martha McSally, and Amy Klobuchar, I am introducing the Stamp Out Elder Abuse Act of 2019, a bill that seeks to help combat the abuse and financial exploitation of our Nation's seniors. Our…

Organic agriculture is based on practices that not only protect environmental health, but also strive to improve it.

I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Braun). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Some people probably do not know unless it was in the bio. Mr. Merritt actually helped work with the drafting of this original program back when Senator Olympia Snowe from Maine was chairing the Small Business Committee in the Senate.

I rise this evening to introduce legislation with my friend and colleague from Delaware, Senator Chris Coons, called the Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2019. I am delighted to say that we have 22 bipartisan cosponsors for our…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the Holte nomination?

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Johnson), the committee chairwoman, for yielding me the time and for supporting this bill, as well as the ranking member from Oklahoma, both of whom have shown a true willingness to address the…

I thank the Senator from Tennessee for giving us such a great history lesson, and I appreciate her remarks. Next on our list of speakers is Senator Ernst followed by Senator Shaheen. I yield to Senator Ernst of Iowa. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

earlier, I recognized Senator Barbara Mikulski, an outstanding leader and former colleague and member of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission. I also want to acknowledge that there are other members of the Commission who are here…

I simply want to thank my colleagues for their participation today in bringing to the attention of the American people that this truly is a historic occasion, a date on which we celebrate the Senate's passage of the 19th Amendment granting…