Madam President, in a few minutes we will be voting, and while I sincerely appreciate the effort of my good friend Senator Sanders, I will be opposing this approach mostly because I don't think we need to go through what I consider to be a…

Madam President, despite the repeated statements and warnings from our military and some of our congressional leaders, including myself, we are again staring down the barrel of sequestration. This has been the great fear we have had, and I…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Transportation Reauthorization Bill

Madam President, first of all, I want to thank my good friend from Vermont for drawing attention to the critical importance of passing a long-term Transportation reauthorization bill. This is one that Senator Boxer and I have been working…

Mr. President, as I said a few minutes ago, I agree with Senator Sanders, the author of this amendment, in terms of what is the problem we have. We have to have a transportation reauthorization bill and we are going to have it. I know…

Madam President, let me say I agree and look forward to that. Sometimes people forget some of the things we are supposed to be doing around here. The Constitution says roads and bridges. That is what we are supposed to be doing. So I will…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be recognized for 1 minute in opposition. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding. I want to pick up and thank my friend and thank our chairman of the Rules Committee for doing exactly what he just suggested, bringing us a rule that lets everybody bring their choices to the…

We have to have certainty. Whatever the rules are going to be, let us have certainty.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is very important when we look at this extremely significant piece of legislation to recognize, as my good friend from Wisconsin said, this is a trust obligation of the United States…

We cannot allow this way of doing business to become the new norm.

I agree with both of you, we accomplished a great deal in the efforts to try and reauthorize CFTC.

I think part of that is an education problem that, you know, better economics lessons will teach people that...

Mr. President, I would like to make a comment about some legislation that we introduced last week that is going to be of supreme interest to a relatively small number of people--those people in America who are general aviation pilots. It…

But we should not assume that our problems with Iran go away once the nuclear deal is signed.

I appreciate very much your talking about him.

Mr. President, on behalf of Senator Wyden, I ask unanimous consent that the following fellows be granted floor privileges for the first session of the 114th Congress: Rebecca Farr, Elizabeth Rigby, and Patrick Bussard. The PRESIDING…

Well, I am running out of time here, and I wanted to get to what is happening right now in Yemen...