Thank you very much. First, I would like to thank Congressman Clay and also Congressman Graves for their kind remarks and also the Missouri delegation. Thanks for being here, and it's great to have that support right behind you. Less than…

I want to also welcome Mr. Smith to the U.S. House of Representatives. Lacy said that he is a fourth-generation farmer, but he is actually a seventh-generation Missourian, and he has been living on the same farm that his great-grandfather…

I would like to talk for a few minutes about Senator Lautenberg and what he brought to this body and what he brought to public service. I represent Missouri in the Senate, and in the House I represented southwest Missouri. Many times in…

I appreciate my good friend Senator Whitehouse yielding the time for me. Remembering Frank R. Lautenberg

Mr. President, I would like to respond to my friend Mr. Merkley. This act, which I would think would more properly be called the farmer assurance act, was passed by both the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Obama in…

Again and again we have heard from this President and this administration that we need to embrace an ``all-of- the-above'' approach when it comes to meeting and supplying our country's energy needs. At the end of the day, this has simply…

Madam President, I want to talk about the tragedy this week in Oklahoma. This is the 2-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado we had 90 miles from my home, a district that I represented for a long time before I came to the Senate and still…

I would like to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tragedy in Oklahoma

While the public is split 50-50 on whether the science of climate change is settled, there is overwhelming agreement--over 97 percent--among climate scientists that the human activity of this Earth is causing climate change. Imagine if we…

On Friday May 17, 2013, I was in St. Louis, Missouri celebrating the graduation of my son, Stephen Wagner. Stephen is graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, and today was his commencement ceremony. Due to this lifetime event…

On Thursday May 16, 2013, I was in St. Louis, Missouri celebrating children's graduations. My son, Stephen Wagner today graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, and my daughter, Mary Ruth Wagner, has a Baccalaureate Mass for…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana for yielding and for organizing these Special Orders this evening. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 45, a bill that will repeal the President's devastating health care reform law, commonly…

I thank the chairwoman for her work. As this bill progresses, I will remind my friends on the floor that one of the major bills we passed last year was the highway bill in the last Congress that she and Senator Inhofe worked on. Now she…

Madam President, I wish to talk a bit about the health care bill. Every time I am home, I hear more and more concerns from more and more families and more and more individuals and more and more employers. In 2009, the President repeatedly…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ObamaCare

Madam President, I would like to talk about an amendment to this bill that could be offered later. I am not offering it at this time. I am being joined in this amendment by my good friend from Florida, Senator Nelson. This amendment would…

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

Today, I want to honor a legendary man, a loyal soldier in the battle for freedom in this great country--Chip Gerdes of my neighboring State of Illinois. Chip suddenly passed away this morning in his home, where he was a loving father and…