More registered voters believe that states should be more responsible for managing the recovery of species than the Federal Government.

The Endangered Species Act is an important law that is in need of improvements.

Americans actually do agree. The Morning Consult poll... showed 73 percent of Americans favor updating the Endangered Species Act.

As the studies done by my Social Capital Project have shown, families today are twice as likely to be headed by a single parent as they were at the end of the sixties.

It is not the Federal Government's business to coerce, cajole, or lead people into any particular family structure.

I don't think the Federal Government should be necessarily in the business of particularly trying to design the American family, but they should get rid of any barriers that make it expensive to be married.

Mr. President, this week, the House of Representatives will pass and send to the President the most important copyright reform in decades. The name of the bill, which passed this body by unanimous vote last week, is the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob…

Mr. President, today I wish to speak about legislation to reauthorize the Emergency Medical Services for Children program administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. I want to thank…

Mr. President, I appreciate the majority leader's remarks in a wide variety of ways. What a great leader he is. We all should pay very strict attention to the way he handles himself and his seriousness about our U.S. Senate. Last night…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 300, H.R. 1551. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as…

Mr. President, for more than four decades, I have had the distinct privilege of serving in the U.S. Senate, what some have called the world's greatest deliberative body. Speaking on the Senate floor, debating legislation in committee…

Mr. President, I thank Senators Alexander, Whitehouse, Grassley, Feinstein, Coons, and Kennedy for all of their hard work on this important bill. I am touched by this gesture. I also thank all of the staffs involved, including those in the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my substitute amendment at the desk be considered; that the Alexander amendment to it be agreed to; that my substitute amendment, as amended, be agreed to; and that the bill, as amended, be…

Mr. President, I know of no further debate on the bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (H.R. 1551), as amended, was…

Mr. President, I want to thank my dear colleague from Nashville--really, from Tennessee--for his very kind remarks. He covered this really well. I have had this experience of writing pretty nice songs, mainly because of my cowriters. I…

The FBI does not do investigations like this. The responsibility falls to us.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak on three very important topics: first, today's celebration of Constitution Day; second, the signing of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act; and finally, tonight's vote on the Opioid Crisis Response Act…

Republican Panel Member Mike Lee just now saying he fully supports going through with the hearing whether Christine Blasey Ford testifies or not.