Mr. President, I wish to join with my distinguished colleagues in our collective call for a greater engagement. I start off, as I always do in many years in Congress between the House and the Senate, with two questions: What is in the…

Mr. President, I rise in support of amendment No. 802, which I understand will be offered to the WRDA bill by my colleague from Louisiana Senator Landrieu which would stop flood insurance premiums from skyrocketing until FEMA completes its…

The Jeffrey Dahmer-like murder trial of an abortionist named Kermit Gosnell is replete with shocking testimony of beheadings, unfathomable abuse, spinal cord snippings, death, and body parts in jars. But how different, really, is Gosnell's…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 432 Russell Senate Office building to conduct a…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013…

Madam President, I rise as a parent, as a father, as an American who saw the horror of Newtown. Too many times I have come to this Senate floor to say I offer my thoughts and prayers to the parents of the victims of an assault weapon…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 10 a.m., in room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 2 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to hold a meeting during the session of the Senate on April 17, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana for that very extraordinary and eloquent speech, bringing to the American people an inconvenient truth that needs to be exposed, and for, again, reminding us all that the major news media--NBC, CBS, ABC…

Dr. Harris, thank you for that very insightful--and I would say brilliant--defense of not just the unborn, but the newly born, and your very logical argument as to how this is already being extended in what is euphemistically called…

I want to thank Mr. Garrett for his eloquence, but also for his faithfulness in defending the powerless and the people who need voices, unborn children and their mothers, all those who are similarly situated, the vulnerable and the weak…

I want to thank Chairman Pitts for his very eloquent statement. Even the grand jury report noted that if Mr. Pitts' law had been followed faithfully, the whole Gosnell destruction of not only women's lives but the death and murder of one…

I thank my good friend and colleague Mrs. Hartzler for her very eloquent statement, for her championing the rights of the unborn and their mothers, and for joining us in this Special Order today. I'd like to now yield to a medical doctor…

I thank you, Dr. Fleming, so much for your leadership and for that very concise statement. And now I would like to yield to my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett).