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Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this bill, H.R. 6538, the Active Shooter Alert Act, bipartisan legislation which I introduced with Congressman Upton and 16 other…
Madam Speaker, H.R. 3285, the 21st Century President Act, does indeed take our criminal code into the 21st century by removing gender terms and assumptions about who can be President from our criminal code. It passed, as I said, on a voice…
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, if I were a classroom teacher right now, I would say to the gentleman from Ohio: Focus. Focus. Pay attention to what we are talking about. What we are talking about…
Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Pocan), the author of this legislation.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act. Across the country, workers are calling out sick because of COVID, truck deliveries and other shipments are facing delays, and people are panic-buying, all leading…
That would be a stunningly obvious and proper thing for him to do. The fact that it has not happened casts an additional cloud over the court.
We don`t allow people under 21 to buy beer. So why do they need to buy firearms and ammunition? That`s a little hard to explain, particularly in the wake of what we`ve seen recently. And for the life of me, I can`t imagine, as a gun owner…
Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act. Every day, I hear from Rhode Islanders rightly frustrated by the rising cost of everyday goods. Exacerbated by Putin's invasion of Ukraine, grocery bills are…
Mr. Speaker, this Pride Month we need to both celebrate the LGBTQI+ community and take action to further LGBTQI+ equality. A vote for today's bill is a vote to do just that. The Financial Services Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Economic…
Mr. President, for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…
I think if we can continue to support, Mr. Chairman, the Coastal Fund, which got, for instance, $492 million, the biggest allocation it has ever received, in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and we have other plans for additional…
Senator Whitehouse, of course, as well, but I think the intention was to object to the measure. I see that my friend Senator Barrasso has joined us. I had mentioned zettajoules. I want to add one other figure. This is from a report by the…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Rhode Island. U.S. Supreme Court
Mr. President, I am here for the 15th time in my series of ``Scheme'' speeches to call attention to the rightwing donors' long-planned scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. What I will talk about today is that scheme's…
Madam President, reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.
I have been listening with interest to my two distinguished colleagues discuss this measure, referring to it repeatedly as ``governing American energy.'' But, of course, what it really governs is fossil fuel energy. That is the intention…
Mr. President, I have 14 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…