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Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 28 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2020, at noon for morning-hour debate…
Madam President, over the past year, the Iranian regime has been increasingly aggressive, attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, shooting down a U.S. drone, seizing a British tanker, attacking a Saudi oil facility, attacking U.S…
Mr. President, there is a story that we often hear about in high school and government classes where George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the Senate was created to ``cool'' House legislation as a saucer is used to cool hot…
Mr. President, I ask permission to address the Senate for 1 minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
Mr. President, I want to wish all Iowans and maybe, in turn, all Americans a happy New Year. As 2020 begins, I am focused on passing the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. I am leading a meeting of the Finance Committee tomorrow…
I can assure the Senator that it was never Congress's intent for gasoline to qualify for this tax credit. I was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee when the alternative fuel mixture credit was enacted in 2005 as part of a surface…
Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with Finance Committee Ranking Member Wyden to discuss a tax provision included in the spending package currently before the Senate. The tax title in this bill contains an…
Madam President, in October the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up and passed S. 2132, the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019. I am happy to say that after further good faith negotiations among key…
I do agree. The IRS got the law correct when it issued Revenue Ruling 2018-2, and our clarification makes clear that it is our intent for the IRS interpretation of the law to be controlling for all claims. This is the basis of the ``no…
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady), the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, and perhaps one of the most successful in modern time. I am looking at this USMCA trade agreement. I said from the beginning…
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I start out, first, that this is the largest, most massive coverup of such a list of crimes against our country, and to go so far as to bring impeachment hearings to try to cover all of…
Mr. President, I am delighted that we last week reached a compromise enabling Congress to send another 5-year reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act to the President's desk this week. Both Chambers' adoption of that compromise, which…
Mr. President, I am here today to commemorate and celebrate the 1-year anniversary of a groundbreaking achievement. On December 18, 2018, the Senate passed the FIRST STEP Act. Three days later, President Trump signed this far-reaching…
Madam President, Senator Wyden and I received a letter from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Their letter endorsed our bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, which tries to respond to what we are hearing…
Mr. President, I stand proudly before this body today in support of the passage of the Debbie Smith Act of 2019. Since its enactment in 2004, the Debbie Smith Act has been renewed twice with overwhelming bipartisan support. With the…
Madam President, this week marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act--December 2017--when the biggest tax cut in the history of the country was passed by the Congress. It has been very successful. The reason…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to address the Senate for 1 minute as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act
Mr. President, I recently heard from an 81-year-old Iowan who is battling cancer. She told me that one test cost more than $12,700. That is almost an entire year's income for that lady. On top of that, her medication is more than $4,700 a…