Mr. President, I call up the motion that I have at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oregon [Mr. WYDEN] moves to commit the bill H.R. 1 to the…

Mr. President, a number of Senators have been inquiring as to what will happen next with respect to the handling of the tax legislation. My sense is that, in a relatively short period of time, the Senate will be voting on the motion to…

Mr. President, this first motion, the first motion the Senate is going to vote on, is a straightforward proposition. The motion says: Let us send this bill back to the Senate Finance Committee on a bipartisan basis and come up with a plan…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 3 minutes to wrap up on the first vote we are going to have on my motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that motions to commit be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With Instructions Mr. WYDEN moves to…

Donald Trump is going to be on Capitol Hill rallying Republicans to vote for his tax bill perfectly designed for his benefit: eliminating the alternative minimum tax, one of the few ways he pays any tax at all; abolishing the inheritance…

I include in the Record a letter from 17 environmental organizations opposing this legislation. November 8, 2017. Dear Representative, on behalf of our millions of members and activists, we write to urge you to oppose the Republican…

I want to again thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus), who I believe is also a West Point graduate. We appreciate his counsel, and I concur. I appreciate working with the House Armed Services Committee and its very able chairman…

You have heard from my colleagues the importance of this legislation. We found a good balance with our friends in the Armed Services Committee and in working with the FDA and with the leadership of the Pentagon to get this right. What…

After spending a bizarre week in the Ways and Means Committee with a moving target of the Republican tax plan, we find out, amazingly, that it is actually getting worse and worse. We have just discovered that the Senate is going to repeal…

I appreciate the comments of the gentleman from New Jersey as we work on this together. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus), chairman of our Subcommittee on Environment and a veteran himself. (Mr. SHIMKUS asked…

Our men and women in uniform have put their lives on the line for this country, and they deserve to have the earliest possible access to medical products that could save their lives on the battlefield. H.R. 4374 will establish important…

Mr. President, our Constitution starts with those three beautiful and powerful words: ``We the People.'' Our Founders envisioned a nation with a form of government that wouldn't result in a government by the powerful and the privileged but…

Mr. President, climate disruption is the seminal challenge of our generation. It affects everything from our farms to our forests, to our fisheries. We are seeing huge impacts around the world: disappearing ice in the Arctic, melting…

I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy in yielding me this time. I have enjoyed listening to the debate back and forth. There is no area in Congress that I have spent more time on, over the course of the last 20 years, than dealing with…

I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy. I was listening to our friend from Louisiana, and I sympathize with much of what he was saying. I have been working on flood insurance reform for 20 years. {time} 1300 We are caught in a dynamic…

The list is an interesting collection. It includes environmental groups, consumer groups, housing advocates, businesses, fiscal watchdogs, and taxpayer advocates. And all of them don't agree with every detail. Many of them would identify…

It is important that we don't lose an opportunity to start changing this situation. When the floods came in Houston, I got calls from some reporters because I had been dealing with problems in Houston going back 20 years. This is an…