We are now in week number 27 of the Republican no-jobs agenda. It is apparent that after last week's disappointing jobs report, that job growth should be our number one priority. But my colleagues across the aisle seem to have not received…

The people of South Sudan have endured two decades of wanton violence, rape, torture and hunger systematically imposed upon them by the Bashir dictatorship in Khartoum. More than 2 million people were killed, 4 million people displaced…

I would like to ask the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Chairman, to engage in a colloquy on the need for traumatic brain injury funding for post-acute guidelines for our returning troops. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that medical…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield to my brother, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Platts).

Reclaiming my time, may I also clarify that should the authorization bill pass with this provision on post- acute guidelines that the Department then has the needed amount of $1 million to really accomplish this objective which we have…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, July 7; that following the prayer and the pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H. Res. 268, and deeply appreciate Majority Leader Cantor; Steny Hoyer; obviously the chairwoman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; and Mr. Berman, the ranking…

So the resolution wisely reaffirms this law and urges the administration to consider suspending assistance to the P.A. pending a review of the unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas. It is our policy, and it is Israel's policy, Madam…

First of all, let me thank Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for her leadership in bringing this bill to the floor today, the majority leader and the Speaker for scheduling it, and to Howard Berman for his strong support of it as well and his…

Mr. President, we are here trying to figure out where America goes in the near future, but also where it goes in the long term because the decisions we make here are going to have a long lasting effect. What we hear and the American people…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that if the Finance Committee meets tomorrow at 9 a.m., it be authorized to meet during tomorrow's session of the Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, there will be a vote tomorrow morning at approximately 10 a.m. ____________________

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:24 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 7, 2011, at 9:30…

Mr. President, I rise today deeply concerned that our Republican colleagues, in their ideological haze, have lost sight of the facts and the real people at home whose lives will be affected by the choices we make. They are lost in an…

Mr. President, I regret that our colleagues have objected to a consent request to go to some of the most critical issues the country is facing--to have the Finance Committee meet on trade agreements that could expand markets and ultimately…

Mr. President, I want to be sure where we are now. Are we in morning business at this point in time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes.

Mr. President, I ask that only so I have some recognition of what the time availability is. I do not plan to take too long. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are 10-minute grants.

Mr. President, I wonder what the American public thinks about when they see an empty Chamber, hear mutterings about class warfare. What puzzles me is, which class is making war against which class and where are the casualties? As we look…