Mr. President, apparently the Trump administration couldn't let its first 100 days go by without going after America's National Monuments. Anybody who cares about protecting some of the greatest treasures in Oregon and across the country…

Mr. President. Every day, Social Security provides vital benefits to millions of Americans who worked and paid into the system. To ensure workers would receive full access to these fundamental lifeline benefits, for many years, the law…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Merkley pertaining to the introduction of S. 987 are printed in today's…

Mr. President, today I rise to address the important urgency of addressing climate change. Across the country, we are seeing the impacts of the warmer climate, and it is having devastating consequences on our forests, on our farming, on…

Today I voted against H.R. 1695, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act. As the founder and co-chair of the Congressional Library of Congress Caucus, I care deeply about the services and the mission of the Library…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that my intern Nicholas Piwonka be granted privileges of the floor for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I am honored to be on the floor for the maiden speech of my colleague Senator Duckworth. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.

I say to my colleague from Illinois that the entire situation we are in revolves around the issue of dark money and having a person on the Court who will sustain that flow. That Citizens United decision was a 5-to-4 decision. Four Justices…

Mr. President, I rise to address the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. I will start by noting that just moments ago the majority leader was on the floor and did something that has never before been done in U.S. history; that is, on the first…

My colleague from Illinois is absolutely right. In the middle of the night somewhere, a few hours ago, I pointed out that this evidence of different style of action didn't just depend on the history books because you can look a few hundred…

What is the agreed-upon schedule to resume the normal activities of the floor? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate has a previous order to stand adjourned when the Senator is finished speaking until 9:30 a.m.

Let's turn to Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Herbert. In August of 2015, Gary Herbert, Utah's Republican Governor, ordered the State to strip $272,000 in Federal funding from the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah in…

As my colleague has pointed out through his question, the challenge we have with the appropriate treatment of our advice and consent responsibility isn't simply a problem with the Supreme Court nominee, but with strategies to prevent the…

I am aware of that, and it disturbs me that the responsibility of the President to find the right person to place on the Court was farmed out, essentially, to these two groups the Senator mentioned. While often people will say: Did the…

I think that would not be a leap of judgment or analysis. Clearly, the groups like the Koch brothers believe that their interests are deeply connected to the decisions made in this body. And they have invested vast resources into the…

I appreciate that clarification. I am going to make this comment now, in case I might forget later. I want to give special thanks to the team of individuals who make this body work in order to provide for the opportunity for extended…

I thank my colleague from Illinois for coming down to help focus on some of those cases. I appreciate the great knowledge he brings to Senate issues and the deliberations in the Judiciary Committee. I am not a member of the Judiciary…

My colleague from Illinois brings up the frozen trucker case, as it has often been referred to, and how it demonstrates an effort to really twist the law away from its original purpose in order to find for the powerful over the individual…