I wish I could say something nice about your staffs, but I cannot do that too.

I think that retrospective review is part of good government, and I think that any President... should think that being good stewards of the rules we have on our books is part of good government and a healthy regulatory system.

I'm the Vice President of the United States. And the answer is, there is no answer I can give you.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 459, H.R. 2494. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill…

Mr. President, I know of no further debate on this measure. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further debate, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 2494), as amended, was passed.

Mr. President, I am going to take a few minutes, if I might, to celebrate something that we, frankly, have a chance to celebrate far too rarely--a bipartisan legislative success. I am thrilled to be here to celebrate the passage of the End…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee- reported amendment be withdrawn; the Coons amendment at the desk be agreed to; and the bill, as amended, be read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sasse). Without objection…

Mr. President, you oftentimes draw the short straw and have to preside while I am speaking, and you can probably give some of these talks as well as I can, but I am going to go back and talk about something I have discussed every couple of…

Mr. President, today we have made important progress on a piece of legislation that we refer to with another one of those funny sounding names. In this case, it is WRDA. It is spelled W-R-D-A. That stands for the Water Resources…

Let me just add a P.S. on Zika funding, which was discussed here earlier today. We had a bipartisan roundtable in the Homeland Security Committee on Zika funding not long ago. Two reasons we need to resolve this funding issue are, No. 1…

Mr. President, I like to tell the story about a Senate Finance Committee hearing about 2 years ago when we had a bunch of very smart people who came in to talk to us about this: What are we going to do about reducing the deficit? We…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak, I suppose out of turn. I understand the Republicans, the majority, have control of the floor. I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes, since there are no other majority Senators. The…

That will be fine. I have absolutely no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the Senator from Tennessee. As he knows, I am a huge fan of his. I have been for a long time. I respect him as a colleague, I respected him as a Governor, and I respected him long before that when he was a principal aide to Howard…

We cannot forget them. I am not going to, and I do not think you want us to do that.

We had the longest markup in history on the Finance Committee.

Medicaid expansion has been critical to lowering the cost of private insurance and improving the health of their residents.

My Republican colleagues, several of them, have recently introduced legislation to roll back the individual mandate.