I have enjoyed working with you the past several years and look forward to continuing that productive relationship in this Congress.

My fear is that we forget about that rest of the person. We forget about the rest of their education.

In my view, energy workforce development is about collaboration and establishing closer partnerships between labor, our STEM objectives, the national laboratories, industry, and academia.

if you tax people for a purpose and that need still exists, then you ought to be able to spend the money on that need.

the law of the land is Yucca Mountain. And politically, we have been unable to come to an agreement on that.

That is what community colleges are so good at is when an industry or business wants to move into the community and they need some people and some skills, you will find that those community colleges have the flexibility to develop the…

I think I just received my marching orders.

I think interim storage becomes much more difficult if it becomes de facto permanent storage because you don't have a plan for a geological repository.

I know I am going to sound like someone who doesn't believe in climate change, and I am not a rocket scientist, but I can tell you the climate is changing.

All we need is a big 302(b) allocation. That has always been the challenge, and it is not just from this administration.

I would buy an electric car tomorrow, but I live in Idaho, and I might drive 500, 600 miles a day, that is not unusual.

It is very important that we do this.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The clerk will call the roll. The…

reserving the right to object, first of all, I want to agree with my distinguished colleague and friend from Michigan as to almost everything he said, with the exception of article IV. This BDS provision is a really important provision…

I rise to complete, I hope, the lengthy work we have done on S. 1--the first bill we introduced this year. It is from the Foreign Relations Committee, and it is a bipartisan piece of legislation which many people have had input into. It is…

Reserving the right to object. Mr. President, fellow Senators, again I part ways with my good friend Senator Paul on this one, to a large degree. The speech he gave, I am in absolute agreement that the government should not be stopping any…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To clarify the deadline for the reporting…