Mr. President, yesterday many parts of my home State of Iowa were hit by extreme winds and severe storms--90-mile-an-hour winds, probably along the path along Interstate 80 from the Missouri River to the Mississippi River. Trees are…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 minute as in morning business, please. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, today our national public health and economic crisis continues without additional legislative action. Reports over the weekend indicate that the Senate minority leader believes that he can hold out for a massive, unwieldy…

Madam President, every day we can see that this public health crisis is also an economic crisis. During the shutdowns, some employers shuttered completely, and others were forced to lay off workers. Tens of millions of jobs were saved…

Mr. President, I want to speak about a Native American tradition in the State of Iowa. It is about the Meskwaki Nation--the only federally recognized Tribe in Iowa. This year, many important annual community events have been canceled due…

Mr. President, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of S. 285 and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; further, that the bill…

Mr. President, once again, we are not talking about an overall immigration debate. We are talking about justice for those families who have received none, just as Scott Root and Michelle Root have seen the death of their daughter at the…

Mr. President, if you are a person just watching politics back home, you probably see a common theme: talking. No matter the topic, people in DC like to talk but not much gets done. There is one topic that is especially guilty of this, and…

Mr. President, I am here to join my colleague from Iowa, Senator Ernst, in this effort. We ought to get this unanimous consent request accomplished, and we ought to get this bill passed because it is unjustified that we don't get the…

Mr. President, history has a way of repeating itself. If we don't learn from the mistakes of the past, we are apt to repeat them. As the November election draws near and as foreign adversaries again seek to meddle in our democracy, let's…

Mr. President, I want to thank my colleagues today--the Senator from Mississippi, the Senator from Kansas, and so forth--for coming down and spending just a little bit of time talking about the wonderful heroes we have in our home States…

Madam President, watch the news or read the newspapers, and you will know that there are a lot of deliberations going on to help with the problems that we have of people being unemployed, the pandemic we are fighting, and getting the…

On another matter, Madam President, Iowa is home to 86,000 family farms and leads the Nation in the production of commodities, such as corn, where we are No. 1; soybeans, No. 2; pork, and eggs, No. 1. Iowa also ranks in the top 10 in…

Madam President, for the benefit of my colleagues who want to speak next, I have a 1-minute remark and approximately 5 minutes of remarks. Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. It is a perfect day to salute an Iowa entrepreneur who…

Madam President, Iowa's secretary of state Paul Pate will mail an absentee ballot request form to every registered Iowa voter for the November election. This is a request form, not a ballot, being mailed out to everybody. Iowa's current…

Mr. President, everybody now in the Senate remembers Senator Hatch. I want to tell you how he is still on the job, reminding Americans of our traditions. Recently, my friend from Utah, former Senator Orrin Hatch, wrote about American…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak 1 minute in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Madam President, the motorcoach industry has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic turndown as a result of it. Iowa has many motorcoach operators, several of which are really family owned and some of them for…