I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4616 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

South Dakota's veterans and the Hot Springs community are currently celebrating the VA's announcement that it has begun the process of rescinding its order to close the Hot Springs VA facility. This was a hard-fought victory in a battle…

in the beginning of September, the Congressional Budget Office issued its latest budget outlook. The news wasn't good. CBO announced that next year our country's debt is projected to exceed the amount of our gross domestic product. In…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito).

Reserving the right to object. On behalf of my colleague Senator Lee, who cannot be here to object on his own because he is chairing an Energy subcommittee hearing, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from…

I reserve the right to object. I want to first point out--I want to thank the previous Presiding Officer for pointing out the fact that if this is not a violation of rule XIX, it is coming pretty darn close. What you just witnessed here is…

a quick response because in my other paper here, I did not have the full quote from John Ratcliffe. I would like to read it now. This is referring to the intelligence product that senior Democratic leaders created, leaked to the press…

The same person they are saying is just this dangerous Russian agent, they were using extensively throughout the Obama administration to set up contacts. He actually had the ability to go to meetings in the White House, and he attended…

Let me continue. The most recent example is a letter and classified addendum created by senior Democratic leaders that accused Senator Grassley and me of relying on foreign disinformation. This ``intelligence product,'' which was full of…

I appreciate the warning. I don't think I did that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized.

I have one last question for the Senator from Illinois. I don't disagree that, again, we can do a better job--both sides--of making the Senate a more open place where we have an opportunity to debate, which I think is the history and…

last week, Leader McConnell called up a bill to the floor of the U.S. Senate. It was a coronavirus relief bill, which included a number of components that both sides had agreed needed to be in any coronavirus relief bill. It was a targeted…

I would say, through the Chair, to my colleague from Alaska that that is absolutely the case. I don't think there is any question but that, if the legislative filibuster is done away with in a future Senate--and, again, Members on the…

would the Senator from Illinois agree, however--because I think it is important to point out that this is not something that happened in the last few years. The Senator from Alaska had a colleague elected in 2008 who, when he ran again for…

Come visit South Dakota, our COVID new infection rates are quadruple the rest of the country and our country's the worst in the world and we don't wear masks.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer).

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Kennedy), the Senator from Kansas…

once again this week, Republicans are bringing forward a proposal to provide additional coronavirus relief to help protect jobs, to get kids and teachers back in the classroom safely, and to provide funding for the treatments and vaccines…