I want to express my support for two projects under their administration and oversight in North Carolina's First Congressional District--the Tar-Pamlico River Basin project and the Princeville, North Carolina project.

I also request, alongside our Illinois senators, modification to the scope and authorization ceiling for Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois.

The Mission Act and the Community Care Provider Network have transformed VA's delivery of health care and services.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss VA's efforts to best serve Veterans living in rural communities.

If we need an example of why oversight of nonbank financial firms is essential, we can look at China today.

We must instill transparency and accountability. We must protect American innovation from the political whims of unelected bureaucrats.

today, the Senate will vote to confirm Judge John Kazen to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Born in Lincoln, NE, Judge Kazen received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his J.D. from the…

I announce that the Senator from Washington (Ms. Cantwell) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.

I listened to my friend, the Senator from Kentucky, and his remarks really brought to mind a division in the United States that most of us are aware of when it comes to the issue of climate change. You either believe that human activity is…

I ask unanimous consent that the cloture motions with respect to the Rodriguez, Goffman, Crews, and Mehalchick nominations ripen at 4 p.m. and that the Senate now resume consideration of the Rodriguez nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

There is no doubt that Nikki Haley is going to leave the state and go to New Hampshire and she is going to be the principal opponent to Donald Trump.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

and also, I thank my colleague, the senior Senator from Illinois, for being here. I would like to just talk today about a dear, dear friend of ours, Ed Smith, who recently passed away. I am going to try not to say too much about what Ed…

By the way, we should point out when he began his campaign, the presumption was he was going to win here in Iowa. And he's crafted his whole campaign with that in mind.

AIG was famously referred to, if I remember correctly, by the Republican Federal Reserve Chair, Ben Bernanke, as a, 'healthy and well-run insurance company with a hedge fund grafted onto it.'

clearly he hasn't. In fact, the Town Hall last week was notable because it was the first time that he actually started drawing distinctions.

I am honored to join my colleague, Senator Duckworth, to talk about Ed Smith. It is rare that Senators come to the floor and pay tribute to someone who passes away. It doesn't happen every day. And when we have two Senators from the same…

I think that Haley has some impetus to draw distinctions with Trump because we're about to go into a New Hampshire primary right after Monday, in which she and Trump are going to be the principal contenders.