My bill is S. 3027, and it involves Acadia National Park in Maine.

We do not want that to the exception to eat up the rule.

We would like to get this taken care of in this session of Congress.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

But one of the problems is we are all trying to predict the future and the only thing we can say with certainty, that we will be wrong.

if the private sector is not willing to, does that tell you something about it?

A huge amount of excess capacity.

the real question is who bears the risk?

I rise to speak in support of the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, a bill upon which we have fortunately invoked cloture today and which I hope will allow us to proceed to finish this vitally important legislation. I…

Unspent funds should be returned.

I really think it would actually discourage people from enrolling.

I think that people should be able to enroll before they provide documentation.

I rise today to speak in support of an amendment offered by the senior Senator from Alaska, Ms. Murkowski, to strike the changes to the basic allowance for housing, or BAH, that are proposed in section 604 of the Defense authorization…

in 15 seconds I yield to no one here in my commitment to the environment, but I also have a commitment to common sense. We are talking about bridges, not expanding--same size, same dimensions, and same location. If that were it, I would…

at 3:30 in the afternoon on December 23 of last year, about a half hour before sunset, the lights started to go out in western Ukraine. The power started to go out. The operator in one of the Ukrainian powerplants noticed, to his horror…

I rise to introduce bipartisan legislation with my colleague from Maine, Senator King, to permit foreign air carriers traveling to or from Cuba to make non-traffic, transit stops in the United States. Enactment of this legislation will…

And when there is confusion around date labeling or how food can be disposed of, with the good Samaritan laws that we have talked about, it just makes it that much more difficult for restaurants and retail stores to find out how to make…

It would create much less waste, something that most of us agree on, and you will find most of the manufacturers and others agree on it as well.