I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up my amendment No. 1197. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Minnesota…

Mr. President, nobody should have to choose between safety and shelter. Yet 48 percent of homeless women in Minnesota previously had stayed in abusive situations because they did not have safe housing options available to them. Twenty-nine…

Mr. President, the amendment I offered, No. 1197, will help small businesses. Small businesses often serve as subcontractors, or suppliers, to large corporations that have a primary government contract. My amendment would help guarantee…

I would like to thank the Senator from Michigan for thanking me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine. Amendment Nos. 1105, 1155, 1158, and 1180

It is. Because the Senator from Maryland spoke to his amendment, I thought that process was over. I apologize. Mr. McCAIN. Not at all. It is no big deal at all. Maybe the Senator from Maine could make her amendments pending.

I yield. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Minnesota. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I would just say that we have the Senator from Maine here. I thought we were going to go through the process of pending amendments before we spoke. I…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To require contractors to make timely payments to…

Mr. Speaker, it has been 4 days since the CBS News program ``60 Minutes'' ran a troubling piece on insider trading in this very House. Mr. Speaker, you and I and our colleagues are the only people in this august body today who are exempt…

We cannot simply wait out the inevitable power of the Internet to move the hearts and minds of the Chinese people.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge and implore my colleagues to support the STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, and I ask also that Speaker Boehner bring this bill to the floor for a vote immediately. On Sunday night…

If you're a free market capitalist here, this has to really appall you, doesn't it?

There's a ripple effect on jobs here.

We're deeply troubled by your account, and I associate myself with Senator Brown's concern for your family.

I applaud this move as a positive first step and look forward to learning what we can do to address this pressing issue.

It is our responsibility, as Senator Brown said, for this institution to uphold the human rights as well as trade deals that were signed onto.

It's always humbling to sit here and see the folks who are on the front line of fighting for human rights.

I think we'll see an acceleration in human rights abuses very quickly.

I certainly think you are hitting on a powerful tool here that can have multiple benefits, both from human rights and economic fairness.