Madam President. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Rhode Island.

Thank you very much, Senator Kaine and Senator Warner. I am here today to pay tribute to an extraordinary gentleman, a great Senator, a decent and honorable individual, the paragon of what we would all like to be--John Warner. John was…

I am concerned that our city may lose funding because of the pandemic.

I am pleased to introduce John Tien, President Biden's nominee to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

The influence of Russia and its leadership under the long rule of Vladimir Putin on global democratic backsliding and corrupt governance cannot be overStated.

I think things have just taken a lot longer to get where we need to get.

I look forward to further discussions on the topic and others.

I am the first quadriplegic to serve as a Member of Congress.

We need to ensure that the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights completes timely, biennial ADA inspection reports.

the automatic door openers. As you and I both know, those doors can be quite heavy, some of them.

The Supreme Court Olmstead decision, for example, that people with disabilities have a right to live actively, independently in their communities.

We haven't quite reached that goal yet as a country, but it is a worthy goal that I am bound and determined in my time in Congress to see us get closer to achieving.

It allows someone with a disability to kind of get a feel for the job.

As Representative Langevin said, public events, such as hearings and markups, need to be accessible, particularly to the deaf community.

Physical accessibility of the Capitol complex is something that I think about daily, not by choice, but really out of necessity.

the access to interpreters or realtime broadcasting of the translation of what is said at the hearings would be important.

You are spot on, on that comment.

Madam President, before I begin, let me just say a word of thanks to my two colleagues from Oklahoma for this moment that we have had on the Senate floor. I was privileged to be waiting to give my remarks to hear them speak, and I thought…