Mr. President, at this time, the 30 minutes under Republican control will be allocated as follows: Senator Wicker will have 5 minutes; Senator Thune, 10 minutes; Senator Johanns, 5 minutes; Senator Kyl, 5 minutes; and Senator Sessions, 5…

Mr. President, under the unanimous consent agreement, we had reserved 5 minutes for Senator Wicker, but I am to going to yield those 5 minutes to Senator Hutchison. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas is recognized for 5 minutes.

How much time remains on the Republican side? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 10 minutes remaining.

Mr. President, as we conclude the day's debate on this resolution of disapproval, I will say that the debate has been good. Many points have been raised, and I appreciate that. I will say, though, as I have listened throughout the course…

Mr. President, let me, if I might, start out and say how much I appreciated the comments by the Senator from South Dakota. Many months ago I did a roundtable with a great company in Nebraska, Nucor Steel. Nucor Steel is one of those…

Let me wrap up and ask my colleagues to support this very important effort by Senator Murkowski. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. President, the English author Albert Pine wrote: ``What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.'' On Memorial Day we come together to recognize and honor those…

Mr. President, as you are aware, on Memorial Day citizens across our great country pause to reflect on our fallen heroes. American hearts swell with pride as men and women everywhere stand just a little bit taller when hearing our National…

I am troubled by this administration's commitment, this lack of commitment of enforcing our national immigration laws. Just last week, John Morton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

I wanted to tell the Senator from Louisiana, because we had an opportunity yesterday when we went to his home State, traveled there with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Homeland Security, we saw the spill from the air…

I thank the chairman and the ranking member. This is a resolution recognizing Lance Mackey. I know Lance personally. As the chairman mentioned, last March he made Alaskan history by being the first person to win four consecutive Iditarod…

If I may follow up with the Senator from Louisiana on the expedited claims process, this is something we heard yesterday, the concerns from those saying they don't believe the claims process is transparent, is efficient, is easy enough…

Mr. President, I rise to speak a little bit about the health care plan that was passed now a few months ago. Of course, there was a lot of buildup to that plan. One of the things that was said over and over again by President Obama was…

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about why cloture should not be invoked on this so-called financial reform bill. The events that transpired in the fall of 2008 and into 2009 are times that no one wants to repeat. That time was marked…

Our State--the great State of Alaska--believes that it would be appropriate and in the public interest and, in the interests of State and local governments across the Nation, for the SEC to add governmental entities to the definitions of…

Section 412 of the legislation requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a rulemaking to implement changes to the definition of ``accredited investor'' in regulation D, and other sections of the legislation will require…

Would the distinguished chairman of the Banking Committee yield for a question on provisions of the bill relating to SEC rules on ``accredited investors.''

Mr. President, today I honor Madame Jadranka Kosor, the Prime Minister of Croatia, on the occasion of her visit to Washington, DC. I congratulate her on becoming the first female Prime Minister of Croatia. Additionally, I commend Croatia…