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Madam President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during…
Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…
Mr. President, I rise to honor the lives of Tennessean Justin Shults and his wife Stephanie, who were killed in the attacks in Brussels, Belgium, on the morning of March 22. I thank our senior Senator Lamar Alexander for joining me this…
On March 16, 2016, I was unavoidably detained due to a family member's health emergency. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: On rollcall No. 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 123, 124, 125, and 126, I would have voted…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. President, last week the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted to advance President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Education, Dr. John King. Tonight the nomination is set to come before the Senate not for a…
Mr. President, for the Committee on Foreign Relations I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…
Madam President, I rise to speak about the discharge vote that will take place momentarily. I just want to say that I know that many people in our country and certainly in this body have significant frustrations with the country of…
Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, Congress has 30 calendar days during which the…
Mr. President, the opening words to the preamble of the Constitution of the United States are familiar to all of us: ``We the People.'' But what do those words mean? It was ``the People'' who established the U.S. Constitution. We…
One of the titles of these articles is ``Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.'' The other is The New York Times article, ``Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat.'' Likewise, Judiciary Committee Chair…
Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…
Let me thank the gentleman from New York for yielding, but also for his tremendous leadership. You and Congresswoman Joyce Beatty from Ohio really have sounded the alarm, beat the drum, and really brought to the American people the…
We are nearing the end of Black History Month. We had a special program yesterday recognizing foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. It reminded me of a man who is a foot soldier up here in Washington, Wade Henderson. Wade Henderson…
Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…
Yesterday we had a program at which we honored the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. One of the Republican Senators confessed: ``I should have done more.'' I hear that from a lot of folks from the South. They go to Selma and they…
I thank the ranking member. Mr. Chairman, this bill which has come before our committee is one that the President has said he will veto because the President says that it is a ``solution that is looking for a problem'' or something to that…
As chair of the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity, I rise to commemorate Black History Month and highlight the disproportionate impacts of poverty on the African American community. Sadly, our Nation…