Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and certainly one of the reasons there is so much interest in my home state in electrics is because of what is happening right now. We have 121 fires burning in my state. Over one million acres have already burned…

I ask unanimous consent that Janice Lepore, a fellow in our office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Senator Casey, one of the things that I most appreciate about the Senator's services, when we bring up a bill, you invariably say: What does it mean for the kids who are hurting? We thank you for it. Senator Brown. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

This is the Magic dock adaptor, right?

Senator Whitehouse, thank you very much for your comments, particularly if you are talking about the immediacy of what is in this bill. I have had small businesses come to me--I am sure Senator Hassan has, too--and they say, look, if this…

Are all the charging stations that are going to be deployed under the Inflation Reduction Act going to have a NACS standard?

I thank my colleague for her good work. Senator Casey and Senator Brown have been two champions of the child tax credit. Let's start with Senator Casey. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.

before he leaves, I just want to say one of the most powerful things Senator Brown often says on the Finance Committee is: Whose side are you on? And Senator Brown always is on the side of communities where everybody has a chance to get…

I mean, here you have 100 talented people coming together with all their experience in the world, and we just spend an incredibly, tediously slow nomination process instead of putting all those talents to work on legislation to make…

the minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

this expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

But what I have seen in the testimony was that the actual time for folks on the Privileged Calendar is slower than those who go to committee, and it is slower now than when that reform was passed.

I mean, here you have 100 talented people coming together with all their experience in the world, and we just spend an incredibly, tediously slow nomination process instead of putting all those talents to work on legislation to make…

the minority...has an incentive to slow things down, make it difficult, extract promises.

this expanding tension in which warfare is conducted by the minority against the President...is just not serving our democracy well.

But what I have seen in the testimony was that the actual time for folks on the Privileged Calendar is slower than those who go to committee, and it is slower now than when that reform was passed.

the only way I see us pursuing these reforms is by that type of conversation.

the challenge is a reflection of almost tribal-level warfare between the parties.