Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on July 20, 2020, because I was not in D.C. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: ``No'' on rollcall No. 139; ``No'' on rollcall No. 140; ``No'' on rollcall No. 141; ``No'' on rollcall No…

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

Mr. President, representative government is a two-way street. To hold up my part of that commitment, I am on my 40th year of holding at least one Q&A in every county every year. Over the past 2 weeks, I had Q&As in 29 counties. Iowans…

Mr. President, the Department of Defense is the only agency that can't get a clean audit. Sometime around 1990, there was an audit law passed directing Departments to get to a point where they could get a clean audit. DOD is still the only…

Mr. President, I have made a career in the Senate fighting against government waste, fraud, and abuse. Most recently, I have found this waste in an office within the Department of Defense called the Office of Net Assessment. Its purpose is…

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2020. This is a bill that I have been working on for the past 18 months. I made lowering prescription drug costs one of my top priorities as I resumed…

Madam Speaker, I was unable to vote on July 1, 2020 due to not being in D.C. Had I been present, I would have voted yes on rollcall No. 134; yes on rollcall No. 135; no on rollcall No. 136; yes on rollcall No. 137; and no on rollcall No…

Mr. President, Congress has taken action in response to the coronavirus pandemic and its significant effects on workers, families, and the economy. It is because the State, Federal, and local governments shut down the U.S. economy for the…

Madam President, if reports are true that Russia has been paying a bounty to the Taliban to kill American soldiers, this is a very serious escalation of what Russia expert Edward Lucas dubbed ``The New Cold War.'' Mr. Lucas said that back…

Mr. President, today the United States, Mexico, and Canada launched a new chapter in our historic partnership with entry into force of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement--USMCA for short. Thanks to the decisive leadership of President Trump…

Madam Speaker, I was unable to vote on June 30, 2020, due to not being in D.C. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: NO on Roll Call No. 130; NO on Rll Call No. 131; NO on Roll Call No. 132; and NO on Roll Call No. 133…

Madam President, this week we debate, as the Senate should, the annual Defense bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. I served 23 years in military uniform, as both a company commander in Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Iraqi…

Madam President, as the Congress considers the defense authorization bill--called the NDAA--this week, I hope that my amendments to improve the Pentagon's financial management systems and crack down on wasteful spending will be supported…

Madam President, since I reclaimed chairmanship of the Finance Committee at the start of this Congress, one of my top priorities has been to fix the failing multiemployer pension system and to help secure retirement benefits of more than…

Mr. President, in June of last year, I held an Oversight Committee hearing about foreign threats to taxpayer-funded research. My goal is to ensure that government is doing its job to detect and deter these threats. Since COVID, America's…

Madam President, the past few months have resulted in some dramatic changes in our daily lives. We all know that is because of the virus pandemic, but for America's farmers and the 86,000 Iowa family farms, there were still crops to be…

He finally gets justice, but just think of the life of Mr. Wilke for the 10 years that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and that agency said he could not farm his land the way he wanted to and put in the tile system the way he wanted to…

Mr. Speaker, I was unable to vote on June 26, 2020, due to not being in D.C. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: ``no'' on rollcall No. 120; ``yes'' on rollcall No. 121; and ``no'' on rollcall 122. MEMBERS RECORDED PURSUANT…