I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded The PRESIDING OFFICER.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

Why do you think everybody is so afraid of EPA?

Let us not get out there with a 'gotcha.' Let us get out there and invest a lot of resources in meeting kind of compliance on the front end.

I believe that ensuring regulated agencies and entities have the necessary resources and information to successfully comply with regulations should also be our top priority.

We need to be really careful when the response to wage inequality or income inequality is more skills for the workers.

I rise in support of the pending legislation to sanction the regime of North Korea for its belligerent behavior toward the United States and its neighbors. Today the Senate takes up a bill to increase sanctions on North Korea. Most…

I rise to talk about a bill which I introduced that I would love to have the Presiding Officer's sponsorship, given how important the Port of Louisiana is to American agriculture and certainly commodities that we ship across the world. It…

I ask unanimous consent that the following fellows in Senator Durbin's office be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 114th Congress: Jeremy Ward, Elizabeth Lawrence, Karla Hagan, and Craig Crawford. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

Mary Wakefield is high-energy. She is super high-energy.

She will hold people accountable who are not doing their job.

I just want to close with telling you how grateful I am that you are willing to take on this challenge, and I look so forward to working with you.

Thank you, Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden. It is a pleasure to introduce Dr. Mary Wakefield and encourage your support for her confirmation as Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

It is time that we take that expertise and that leadership that nurses show every day, put it in among the highest ranks.

There has to be more accountability in order to kind of tell the people that we serve, which are the taxpayers, that we are being fiscally responsible.

I ask unanimous consent that the following letter be printed in the Record in recognition of the service of Edward Johnson, chief financial officer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, upon his retirement from the Federal…

I am a big believer, as a lot of people at SAMHSA, a lot of people working on this, that we can do better in terms of treating the whole person.

It is a travesty! Further, it is a problem that will continue to have negative impacts for generations to come.