Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the votes following this first vote in the series be 10 minutes in length. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 3395 Under the previous…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. PAUL (when his name was…

Mr. President, I wish to speak in strong support of amendment No. 3362, offered by Senator Feinstein and me, the Transnational Drug Trafficking Act. This is a bill that she and I have worked on for many years. One of the many reasons for…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon. Amendment No. 3395 to Amendment No. 3378

Mr. President, we just heard some very legitimate questions from the previous speaker that ought to be answered, and I am going to go back to the familiar to answer that--to the so-called Biden rules. By now everyone is pretty familiar…

Madam President, I call up the Toomey amendment No. 3367. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the pending amendment is set aside. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Iowa…

Mr. President, I am pleased we are considering the bill before us entitled the ``Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act''-- acronym CARA--and that we are on the floor discussing this very important issue. Since I spoke about the bill…

Mr. President, I call up the Feinstein-Grassley amendment No. 3362. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Grassley], for Mrs. Feinstein, proposes an amendment…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment, as modified, is as follows: (Purpose: To provide follow-up services to…

Mr. President, I call up Donnelly amendment No. 3374, as modified. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Grassley], for Mr. Donnelly, proposes an amendment numbered…

Mr. President, today Senators Schumer, Tillis and I will introduce legislation to help America's families locate missing loved ones who have Alzheimer's disease, autism or related conditions that may cause them to wander. Our bill would…

Mr. President, we have all heard accounts of innocent children being victimized and abused by predators. Today I will introduce legislation to extend two of the key programs that Congress established under the Adam Walsh Child Protection…

Candidly, I am at the point now where folks have raised concerns about trails and a variety of other facets of the Forest Service that we are not going to do what we have done in the past, which is transfer money for fire suppression.

I am confident, because I think we have addressed both short-term and long-term, traditional and nontraditional, challenges that agriculture is going to face.

I appreciate the comment, Senator, and I will take that back to the team.

I think it is $1.5 million for five or six people.

The reason I feel so strongly about this is last year during our award ceremony, I had to give out seven American flags to family members who lost loved ones in forest fires.

This is also a budget, I might add, that is $1.8 billion less than the budget that was submitted in the first full year of this Administration.