Is debate on the Sessions amendment now available? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 5 minutes of debate in order on the Sessions amendment, followed by a vote. Who yields time? The Senator from Alabama.

Mr. President, in view of the fierce urgency of now, there is harm already being levied upon these communities, commercial fishermen, tourism, and others, and because $75 million is less than 1 day of BP profits, I ask unanimous consent…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the condemnation of the Lord's Resistance Army expressed in S. 1067 and the bill's goal of supporting civilian protection and development in northern Uganda. Four years…

Mr. President, if I may ask my distinguished chairman to yield for a moment, the Chairman is absolutely right. As a matter of fact, when I made that comment that we were going to have a tsunami of foreclosures, the administration witnesses…

Mr. President, I wanted to come to the floor to talk about the Shelby amendment. I think we need to be 100 percent clear about one thing; that is, we need to pass a consumer protection bill-- not a Wall Street protection bill--with a…

I wish they had been right and we had been wrong. But I think the chairman hits it right on point. In the context of the rating agencies, they were playing coach and referee. When you are playing coach and referee, somehow the game does…

Mr. President, I come to the floor this afternoon to talk about the bill before us. I commend my colleague, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Dodd, for his leadership on this crucial reform. I want to start off by…

I rise this afternoon to speak on an issue that for too long we have known about but have done little to nothing to address on either side of the aisle. That issue is our growing trade inequity, which continually puts American…

At this time, Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

May I inquire as to the time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 10 minutes remaining.

May I inquire as to how much time we have remaining on both sides? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 12 minutes. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 16 minutes.

I wonder what would have happened if Officer Rhatigan was not on the scene to be alerted by the two citizens I mentioned before. This is exactly why we need to fund our first responders based on security needs. We need no other barometer…

Madam President, I rise today, as I am pleased we are finally moving to Wall Street reform--something I have come to speak about several times on the floor. That is critically important to our country, critically important to our economy…

Mr. President, I would like to take a moment to recognize the life of women and civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, a woman who helped pave the way for an African American to be elected President of the Unites States, a Latino son of…

Madam President, I think it has been said before, but here we go again. What we have just seen tells us what the American people ought to know. There are fundamental questions being asked of Senators this week, principal of those: Whose…

I have introduced a bill which would provide small grant money to fledgling nongovernmental organizations throughout the world. In my travels to places like Nigeria, I met up with a small nongovernmental organization which was like David…

Earlier this month we witnessed the tragedy of an inter-country adoption gone wrong when a 7-year-old boy was forced back, alone, to Russia. Last year over 12,000 children from around the world were adopted by American families, yet only a…

I thank my good friend, Mr. Pitts, for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H. Res. 1033, a resolution designating April 2010 as National Autism Awareness Month. I thank my friends and colleagues Messrs. Reichert, Gerlach…