Mr. President, I want to talk a little bit about what my good friend from Delaware talked about with regard to our being judged by history. Some of what I want to talk about today is of the history of this system and of others who have…

Mr. President, my colleague just talked about standing up for the Senate, about standing up for the values that traditionally have been our values. One of those principal values has been ``innocent until proven guilty.'' What we have seen…

Recently, I spent time listening to farmers, large manufacturers, and leaders of smaller companies in my district express their frustrations on how tariffs are affecting their bottom line. I visited a steel fabrication company, an…

Dow Jones has said that the information provided to it from NGOs like Liberty Asia and others is relevant and actionable in its anti-money laundering work. This bill enables FinCEN and financial institutions to gather hard intelligence…

As one of the only professional pilots in Congress, I rise today in strong support of the long-awaited FAA reauthorization bill. I was happy to work closely with the chairman, ranking member, and all of our Senate counterparts to reach the…

I thank Representative Tipton. I rise today to speak on behalf of the bipartisan Empowering Financial Institutions to Fight Human Trafficking Act. The International Labor Organization estimates that, globally, over 40 million people were…

Mr. President, today we are about to mark a milestone. Maybe it wouldn't be a milestone for any other group except for the U.S. Congress; that milestone is getting a significant part of our work done on time. This will be the first time in…

I regrettably missed votes on Thursday, September 13, 2018. I had intended to vote ``yes'' on rollcall vote 399. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus), who is vice chair of the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, and the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty) for their work on this legislation. For years, the…

Madam President, I want to speak for a few minutes about the hearings going on today with Judge Brett Kavanaugh. I had a chance, as you did, to meet him a little over a month ago. It was clear from that conversation that he is clearly the…

Mr. President, I know we have a series of votes coming up, and I won't stand in the way of those votes once we get over the next couple of minutes, but I didn't want to let the week go by without talking a little bit about John McCain here…

Mr. President, I appreciate the concern of my friend from Wyoming on this. I will be voting to waive the point of order. My colleague from Wyoming was exactly right when he said this is a complicated formula. It is a combination of…

Mr. President, certainly I want to thank my colleagues today for the credit that they have shared with me and that I am reluctant to accept. This is clearly an effort to establish what our priorities are. There are a lot of things in this…

Mr. President, it has been 11 years since this bill has been on the floor. Consequently, none of these staffers have probably ever been mentioned on the floor before, even though every single year they have made this continued, great…

Mr. President, I have 6 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…

Madam President, we will vote in a few minutes to move forward with the Defense, Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations bill. That probably sounds like a pretty unusual combination, even though I think most voters, most taxpayers…

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Vermont for his leadership. Again, this is the first time in over a decade for the 69 people who aren't on the Appropriations Committee to get to come to the floor and offer amendments and think…

Mr. President, this is the first time in 11 years that the chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee has had a chance to stand on the floor and present a bill. It is a subcommittee that I am honored to…