Mr. President, I want to follow up on the remarks that have just been made by our friend from South Dakota. During his first 100 days in office, President Trump has wasted no time in fulfilling one of his key promises and one of those…

While it is widely known that Horace Peterson of Kansas City was the visionary and sole founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, it is little known who saved the institution from vanishing years later. During the spring of 1998, Ruby…

Madam President, I want to talk about what we are doing today and how important it is, how unique it is in the history of the country. Since 1789, 112 people have served on the Supreme Court. It is hard not to be reminded today, as we vote…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. I also want to thank the distinguished gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren) for his work on this legislation and, more broadly, issues surrounding American entrepreneurship. He has been a…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 209. ____________________

Mr. President, I certainly agree with the comments just made by our friend from Oklahoma in looking back at the history of the Court. The 200 years of giving judges a vote really is an important thing for us to understand, as hopefully…

Mr. President, I come today to talk about the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Once again, throughout the hearings last week, Judge Gorsuch proved that he has the knowledge, he has the temperament, and…

Yesterday I spoke with a dynamic, impressive young woman, Maryn White, from Lee's Summit, Missouri. Maryn is a 16-year-old sophomore at Lee's Summit West High School. When she was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis…

Mr. President, I am here today to discuss the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. So far this year, we have heard that it is too early to do everything, that the process of putting the President's Cabinet in…

It is. Mr. President, I think you are seeing that too. The critical needs hospitals, the critical access hospitals--the only hospitals available--are often also hospitals that disproportionately have people who are not insured or people…

Mr. President, I want to talk about the Affordable Care Act and its failures, as well as the American Health Care Act and what differences I think it makes. I am going to be joined on the floor by at least one of my colleagues soon, and we…

Mr. President, I am glad to yield my friend 5 minutes to start the day. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Illinois is recognized. Filling the Supreme Court Vacancy

I thank the Senator from Wyoming for his efforts on this topic from the time we were both explaining why we thought President Obama's plan wouldn't work. What I see and I think what you mentioned you see is that people who have coverage…

Mr. President, I want to talk a few minutes about the challenges so many of our Cabinet members face trying to restore our infrastructure, to maintain our park system, and to create the public- private partnerships the President mentioned…

On January 20, America witnessed the end of the most regulation-happy Presidency in American history. Under the Obama administration, the pages of the Code of Federal Regulations reached the highest level in the history of our country. The…

Mr. President, every day we continue to set new records for how long it takes for the new President to get his Cabinet in power--in office--and the responsibility to carry out the things that the President said that he wanted to do when he…

Mr. President, we are coming to the conclusion of weeks now of debate on the nominee to be the Attorney General of the United States, and we still have other debates to have on other people before this process ends. In fact, somebody…

I wish to share a little of that editorial where the Denver Post says: We are not afraid of a judge who strictly interprets the Constitution based solely on the language and intent of our nation's founders, as long as he is willing to be…