May I inquire as to how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

May I ask how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 6 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Oregon has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 220, nays 185, not voting 25, as…

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, the chairman and I have had a wonderful working relationship during our time on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. I understand where he is headed…

I appreciate my friend from California's comments, especially about the smoke and his sympathy for the folks all across the West, and especially in the Pacific Northwest. I am a native Oregonian and, tragically, we have been choking on…

Mr. President, I am told the Senator from Arkansas is up, and I will be very brief. I appreciate his courtesy. Once again, the Senator from Missouri is getting it all wrong. He talks again about how this law--this bipartisan law--is…

Mr. President, I just want to say in the Senate, in my time in this body, this is one of the most stunning abuses of power I have seen in my time of public service. I think my colleague knows that I was sitting until 5 minutes ago in the…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to complete my remarks prior to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, Senators come to this floor with greatly diverse life experiences and political theories and representing enormously different States. But we all share this in common: a vast appreciation of our team members, our staff…

I want to thank my friend, the ranking member of the House Energy Subcommittee and the former chairman of the full committee, Mr. Upton, for yielding me this time. Tragically, I have to rise in opposition to H.R. 4447. This reminds me of…

Last week our subcommittee held a hearing on the Chinese Government's use of forced labor for the production of all kinds of goods through a concerted program of oppression and coerced assimilation of China's Uyghur population. You have…

The shock of the loss of Justice Ginsburg and the stunning hypocrisy of Republicans who denied Judge Garland even a hearing because a year was not enough time rush to jam through another Trump appointment. The devastating national…

I am prepared to close so I will defer to my colleague from Ohio. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. President, I join my colleagues here on the floor tonight to honor and pay tribute to a remarkable legal mind, an incredible American, an icon, an inspiration, and a wonderful human being: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known to the…

Madam President, as our colleague just said tonight, you can't even remember any other member of the Federal judiciary who became a cultural icon, recognized only by their initials. RBG did, and she earned her recognition and her place in…

Mr. President, the election is only weeks away. Voting has already begun in some places. I know that folks at home in Oregon, where some of our communities are literally reduced to ashes, are already thinking about how they are going to…

Mr. President, I am very disappointed that my colleague has objected. I just want to make a brief response reflecting on my role as a senior member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Again, as I indicated earlier, I can't get…

Mr. President, I rise in support of this resolution offered by the Democratic leader. We are calling for an end to a horribly flawed congressional investigation. The foreign threats to our democracy--attempts to poison it with…