last week, on May 14, our friend and ally Israel celebrated its 76th Independence Day. As we all know, Israel was founded in the wake of the Holocaust to give the Jewish people a homeland that would allow them to return to their ancestral…

well, here we go again. The Environmental Protection Agency is back with a barrage of rules and regulations to accomplish two main goals: kill coal and natural gas once and for all, and in doing so, appease the climate activists who the…

well, today is May 1, which is National College Decision Day. This is normally such an exciting occasion for students in my home State of West Virginia--and your home States--would be finalizing those really fun and hard decisions about…

Thank you, Chairman Carper. Thank you for holding this business meeting.

Thank you, Chairman Carper. Thank you for holding this business meeting.

On April 18, five brave young girls had the courage to stand up for their rights in Harrison County, West Virginia. These 13-year-old girls showed more guts and courage in their convictions than most grownups. These student athletes…

We all know that we will need significantly more reliable electric generation with the projected rapid growth in energy demand.

Thank you, Chairman Carper. Thank you for holding this business meeting.

I rise to honor Mr. David M. Bearden for his lengthy career of public service to the U.S. Congress and the American people. After more than 33 years at the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, Mr. Bearden recently retired at the end of…

I ask that all time be yielded back. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the bill is considered read a third time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and…

I rise today because I truly want to depoliticize this. I want to give you the facts because I was the one who negotiated the bill with the President. I negotiated the bill with the Speaker of the House. I negotiated this bill with the…

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

Well, I think this law is very clear, basically, it says that the patient himself and the guardians have to have permission, and give you permission to do it.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

NIH is not just great biomedical research institution, it's also a driver of economic growth.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.