My O&C bill would double the harvest compared to the average harvest over the last decade, and it would ensure lasting protections for Oregon's special places.

I am extremely pleased to rise to express my support for the open debate we are going to have on the fiscal year 2017 Energy and Water appropriations bill. I would certainly like to thank the Senator from California and my colleagues on…

I think we have to understand, there are a lot of small towns.

I rise today to once again share the devastating story of the nationwide opiate epidemic that America currently faces, which is pain pills. It is a crisis I have been dealing with since my days as Governor of the great State of West…

Would a regional approach be helpful for small towns to get together so that they may be collectively come up to 3,000 or 4,000 people?

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue. Without objection, it is so ordered. Prescription Drug Abuse

I want to just state, in wrapping up, my commitment to work with Senator Crapo to thread the needle on this to find a solution that is consistent with the Wilderness Act and also with the grazing language that was included in the original…

I just wanted to kind of jump in on the IT issue.

the eventual winner in any future conflict will be the side whose people adapt best to chaos.

I have been hearing everyone talk about it, and they are not getting anything done.

I am very concerned about national security as it relates to encryption.

If a company like yours, as sophisticated as it is and with the securities you have, it can lose control of encryption keys, how could we have confidence in others?

I certainly believe that utilities are exposed.

Whether or not they can make this payment or not.

We can't afford to have that as you well know.

I am asking, please, they have reached up this far up.

Now is not the time to set an artificial schedule.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Jessie's Story