Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 5681, which was received by the House and is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The…

Madam President, I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 4008) to…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported amendments be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate consider the following nomination: Calendar No. 659, Katherine Vidal, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 277, S. 2123. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 6, and that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…

Madam President, later this week, the full Senate will take up and vote on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Over the last several weeks, the Congress and…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding me time. Mr. Blumenauer and I have jointly led and sponsored this bill for four Congresses. Although we disagree about recreational marijuana--he supports it; I oppose it--as a physician, I…

Well, I am not surprised that the gentleman, and many of the bills that he refers to, want to undermine the regulation to protect the health and welfare of the American people which those are designed to do, and most of which I think, you…

I think the distinguished gentleman seems to concede the general principle that we should not be denying the opportunity of Federal employment to half of the country because they have used marijuana before. So, his argument seems to be: We…

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 78, after line 20 insert the following: (c) Review and Reassessment.-- (1) In general.--Not…

I thank the gentleman for pointing out that my amendment would apply not only to people who have sought public employment in the past and been denied because they have been honest enough to admit that they have once used marijuana but to…

Yes. If, in fact, that was the reason for non-production, we all would have heard of the fact when we are not producing, and the stock market would have heard about that, and the companies would be lamenting the fact that they are not…

I thank the gentleman for that question, and I have been thinking about that because he asks that regularly. I particularly have been thinking about that question in the context of the fact that we have so much available acreage on which…

I thank the gentleman, the Republican whip from Louisiana, for yielding. On Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m., Madam Speaker, for morning-hour and 2 p.m. for legislative business, with votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. On Tuesday and…

Chairman Nadler, ranking members, this is an important piece of legislation. How do I know that? Because the people have told us that. Every time they have had the opportunity to vote in America, they have voted to do this. They know that…