I know that you are probably like me and you have been grateful for the time to be home and to see family and friends and just to chat with them about what is going on in their lives and the issues that are important to them, what they are…

on behalf of myself and Senator Blackburn, I ask unanimous consent that the following remarks be printed in the Congressional Record to further honor the life of Andrew Franklin Alexander, the late son of former Tennessee U.S. Senator…

I am looking around this Chamber, and I am talking to my colleagues, and it is so apparent; we should not be here right now. Our business should be done. We have had all year. We should have wished one another well last week, and then we…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Democratic Legislative Agenda

I am here on the Senate floor now for the 21st time specifically to oppose President Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates. I have introduced over a dozen bills to one way or another limit, clarify, or counteract the mandates. Every time I…

To reiterate here, all I want is some assurance. I appreciate my friend and colleague from Oregon understanding my basic concern here. It is not an unreasonable concern. All I want is some assurance from the administration that it is not…

If confirmed as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Maria Pagan would be responsible for negotiating details of any waiver of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, also known as the TRIPS Agreement. I have…

reserving the right to object, I made communication with the EPA as to how to resolve a concern that I have. It should be an easy thing to resolve. I am waiting to hear back a response from them. In the meantime, I object. The PRESIDING…

in her 1993 Nobel lecture, Toni Morrison-- no conservative--told a story of an old woman who was approached by a group of kids, mocking her and asking her to offer her conjecture: Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird. Tell me whether it is…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Build Back Better Act

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I oppose this bill, Madam Speaker, because it is redundant and will grow a State Department bureaucracy that is already overgrown. This is the same State Department that already has two bureaus tasked…

the time has come to once again bid farewell to another one of Team Blackburn's esteemed fellows. Over the past year, we have had the privilege of working with Capt. Edward Pritchard, who came to us from the U.S. Marine Corps to serve as…

I ask unanimous consent that Captain Edward Pritchard, a Department of Defense fellow with my team, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

If the people from Nashville could go to Memphis, they could then go to New Orleans. Everybody wants to go to New Orleans. And next, everybody wants to go to Memphis. Atlanta, nah.

Thank you to my good friend, Chairman Ted Deutch, and I want to thank you for holding this important hearing today.

It would be much better with a train. That would be wonderful.

I introduced the Interstate Rail Compacts Advancement Act, which would create multistate regional passenger commissions.

I am a big fan of Amtrak, a big fan of rail transportation, and we have heard today about intercity passenger rail service.