I appreciate your expertise. I have just a few questions, if I may.

Madam President, Senate Standing rule XXVI requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the committee and to publish those rules in the Record not later than March 1 of the first year of each Congress. On February 27…

Madam President, Senate Standing rule XXVI requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the committee and to publish those rules in the Record not later than March 1 of the first year of each Congress. On February 28…

We are nearly a week into the sequester that went into effect on March 1st.

Madam President, Senate Standing rule XXVI requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the committee and to publish those rules in the Record not later than March 1 of the first year of each Congress. On February 27…

Madam President, Senate Standing rule XXVI requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the committee and to publish those rules in the Record not later than March 1 of the first year of each Congress. On February 27…

I ask unanimous consent for 30 seconds to conclude my remarks. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, what has become painfully clear to me this week is that folks in the Congress, folks in the Senate aren't listening to each other anymore. As we lurch toward our latest fiscal crisis--the looming sequester that takes effect…

My question for everyone--everyone--in both parties, both Chambers who goes to this important meeting at the White House tomorrow is, How much more time do we have to fight and not to act, to attack and not compromise, to spin rather than…

What should we be doing to expand Medicare Advantage in a cost-efficient way that ensures that seniors in all 50 States have a meaningful choice between high-quality Medicare Advantage plans and traditional Medicare?

I have heard it often, and I believe them, so we have a responsibility here to try to figure this out.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for your testimony today, for your report, and really for your great leadership on monetary policy for our country over the last several years.

You have consistently said that we need to be careful in the short term, do no harm in the short term, if I may, and address our long-term imbalances, fiscal imbalances in the outyears.

One of the specific ideas that have been floated is to increase the age for Medicare eligibility.

Do you believe as I do that health care costs are the primary driver of our outyear deficits?

Madam President, rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the Committee and to publish those rules in the Congressional Record not later than March 1 of…

Mr. President, it is rare that I disagree with the Senator from Texas--maybe once or twice in the last half a dozen years. Seriously, we disagree from time to time, but we do it in a way that we are not disagreeable with one another. I…

We spend more money for defense as a Nation than I think the next five or six, maybe seven nations combined.