Mr. President, Senators should expect four rollcall votes at 11:30 tomorrow morning as well as one additional vote after lunch. ____________________

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of Calendar Nos. 659 through 678 and all nominations on the Secretary's desk; that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions…

Madam President, we all want safety, security, health and well-being for all of our fellow Americans. But it sometimes seems impossible for us to agree on how best to achieve them. So when Congress comes together to find solutions to an…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chairman, I would say in response to the gentlewoman from Minnesota that the actual application of the Davis- Bacon wage act is not what we would call a fair labor standard, not when you have some hacks that sit in a room once a year…

Mr. Chairman, I have to say in contradiction to the gentleman who just spoke, on-the-job injuries, I don't know what would support that, whether or not there is a Davis-Bacon wage scale on that. That has to do with your safety policy on…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment is an amendment that I have brought in past years. What it does, it says none of the funds made available by this act, including the amendments made by this act, may be used to implement, administer, or enforce a…

I say thank you to Senator Sullivan, the distinguished Senator from Alaska. Thank you for your passion as well. You have served in the Marines, in the Marine Reserves. I thank you for that, for your dedication and your commitment to our…

I thank my colleague. Yes, of course, they pay attention. They see what is going on in the Senate. We track this. I tracked this when I was a young captain serving in Kuwait and Iraq. We track this because it is so important that we have…

It sounds to me that we are relatively universal among the witnesses that restoring responsible earmarks would be a constitutional thing to do.

I thank you, Mr. Ridley. And I would ask unanimous consent to introduce the Cut Act into the record.

I think it is the constitutional responsibility that we have here in Congress. We should not abdicate this responsibility over to the executive branch of government.

Davis-Bacon wages, for example, make highway construction projects 20 percent more expensive than they would otherwise be.

I would like to offer that also up to Mr. Min and see if he would care to comment.

The reason for these inefficiencies in the Highway Trust Fund largely lay that the feet of a dormant Congress that delegated funding decision to the unaccountable bureaucrats in the executive branch.

The Highway Trust Fund is being diverted to pay for Davis-Bacon wages, bike trails, squirrel sanctuaries, and environmental and archaeological studies and compliance.

Do you find it ironic that the last examination of a Clinton in this room... hinged on the meaning of the word 'is.'

Are you aware that Hillary Clinton has repeatedly lied to the public about her emails and her email servers in public forums and, say, campaign speeches and interviews with the press?