today, along with my colleague Senator Carper, I am introducing the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act. This bill would ensure that we have accurate, detailed information about the extent of mercury pollution in the United…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, this shutdown has been brutal on working people across the country. Many of them are my constituents, and I came down here to let their voices be heard. Back home, a Border…

government shutdowns are never the answer. No matter how difficult the problem, we should never resort to shutting down government. It harms too many innocent Federal employees--in this case, 800,000 Federal employees and their families…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska. ____________________

I thank our future chair for yielding me the time. I appreciate it. Mr. Speaker, I consider it a privilege to sit on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, where we fund agencies and departments that are important…

I first want to make a single declarative sentence: There is no one in this body who is for open borders. One of the most troublesome aspects of this debate that has been framed, particularly by this administration, is that you are either…

I can't leave the floor without complimenting the Senator from Alaska for her usual thoughtful analysis and constructive approach to dealing with this issue. I am proud to serve with the Senator on the Energy and Natural Resources…

Would the Senator yield for just a short comment? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine is recognized.

I thank Mr. Bishop of Georgia, our future chair, for yielding me the time. I rise in support of H.R. 265, the fiscal year 2019 Agriculture appropriations bill. There is no reason we cannot pass these individual appropriations bills that…

Today I rise in support of H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, a commonsense bill to mandate background checks before the sale of a firearm. During my first term in Congress, I served with my friend and former…

today I wish to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the city of Auburn, ME. Auburn was built with a spirit of determination and resiliency that still guides the community today, and this is a time to celebrate the generations of…

The bill that passed has $1.6 billion. The one that passed last year had $1.3 billion. You know, that's a lot of money and does specify a whole series of things but, again, part of the burden on the administration is to come forward and…

No, I think there's a problem, not a crisis.

I've never heard anybody say that. I've never heard anybody advocate it. Everybody on both sides of the aisle is for border security.

I think there is a way out by saying, OK, park rangers have nothing to do with the wall. Food stamps have nothing to do with the wall. Let's fund those.

We can only interdict one-fourth, 25 percent, of the boatloads of drugs that we know are coming by water from Latin America because of lack of resources.

Holding the government hostage is exactly what this is, is not, shouldn't be in the toolkit.

If the precedent is established that the president can hold the Congress and the government hostage to get some policy that he wants, then I don't know where it stops.