I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 31, after line 24, add the following new title (and update the table of contents accordingly): TITLE…

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a key Federal law for advancing equity in our Nation's classrooms. The rules implementing title I provide important details that make sure historically underserved students have…

Mr. President. 6 years ago this month, more than 100,000 Bahrainis of all ages and backgrounds joined together to protest their government. Although these men and women took to the streets peacefully, they were met with violence as the…

And Ranking Member Torres, thank you for bringing this legislation to the floor once again. I want to elaborate a little bit on what my friend and colleague from Portland talked about. It was more than just a camping trip. It was 3 nights…

It is a pleasure to be on the floor here this afternoon with my friend and colleague, Congressman Walden, who is going to talk at great length--maybe not, but he could. This represents, hopefully, the culmination of over 12 years' work…

I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and I appreciate his leadership on this. I just heard my friend talk about these imaginary practices. If they are, in fact, imaginary, what is the problem in terms of having Fish and Wildlife moving to…

Mr. President, today I, along with 13 of my Senate colleagues, am introducing the Presidential Trade Transparency Act of 2017. This bill establishes new reporting requirements directing the President to disclose foreign income, assets, and…

Madam President, last month I stood here to express my serious concerns about the nomination of Scott Pruitt to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As the vote draws closer, I want to reiterate those concerns and give voice to…

Madam President, I am disappointed with the majority leader's objection. I know all of us who serve in this Chamber want to do our job in a fashion in which we thoroughly and responsibly execute the responsibilities of our office. We can't…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senator Peters be allowed to speak for 5 minutes, followed by Senator Carper for 10 minutes, followed by Senator Barrasso for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Madam President, I thank the floor staff who were here through the night last night and also the staff of the Republican cloakroom and the Democratic cloakroom. They have enabled us to continue this process at great expense to their energy…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak for 2 minutes, followed by Senator Heinrich for 10 minutes and Senator Tester for 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so…

Madam President, when President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, he recognized that we all share in a ``profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment and the preservation of the Earth as a…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, over the past several weeks, we have seen a historic level of obstruction from our Democratic colleagues on the President's Cabinet. Let me say that…

Madam President, both of my unanimous consent requests have been rejected, as is the right of any Member. But still, there is a principle here--a principle of executing our responsibilities and a principle of transparency, a principle of…

Madam President, as everyone in this Chamber knows, we are currently debating and preparing to vote on the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The truth is that we don't have all…

One of the things that I want to return to is why we are so concerned about this complex matrix of corruption, of dark money changing the outcome of campaigns, changing the makeup of the Senate, changing the type of rules that are adopted…

I appreciate the Senator's chart because I think it demonstrates, in a much more precise way, what I was describing, the corrupting role of dark money. Here, the Senate has illustrated how that money was really unleashed by the Citizens…