Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Waters of the United States Rule

Mr. President, I rise today to congratulate my friend, colleague, and Iowa's outstanding senior Senator on casting his 12,000th vote in the wee early hours of this last Friday morning. In fact, there are only 17 other Senators in history…

Madam President, I wish to take a quick moment and thank my friends, my colleagues for supporting this effort, and I look forward to some lively discussion on the EPA's overreach and this WOTUS rule. I encourage my fellow Republicans and…

I did lead a number of my colleagues in a letter regarding our concern for Russia's activities near some of our underwater cables.

I think we have a lot of, as I said, talent and abilities that could be better utilized on or with an active duty force.

Welfare programs--and the individuals they are designed to help--have become just another pawn in the endless partisan conflict.

This administration has attempted to bypass the Congress and create regulatory schemes not authorized under the statute.

Senator John Breaux from Louisiana and I spearheaded the so-called 'Tri-partisan' proposal to reform TANF.

Several years ago, I wrote a letter to President Obama indicating my willingness and desire to work with him on welfare reform.

May I have 1 minute to speak to that point? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, I wish to commemorate my friend and colleague for casting his 15,000th vote today in the Senate. Senator Leahy has been a stalwart Member of this body since joining the Senate at the age of 34 in 1975. Four decades later…

Madam President, I think we have clearance on a noncontroversial resolution that is going to pass yet this evening, and I rise for about 5 minutes to speak on this issue. Last week I submitted a resolution to commemorate the goals and…

Madam President, I appreciate my colleague bringing up the history of Andrei Sakharov Plaza. A lot of people wonder whether this makes much of a difference, what the Senator is attempting to do in the case of the Chinese Embassy. I can…

Mr. President, I rise to express my strong support for the bill before the Senate, S. 754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, and I want to thank the bill's managers for their leadership in drafting this bill and putting a lot of…

I'd just say we've done into a void on this for a politically correct reason.

But I'm looking at our values today, and I'm watching as there is a fairly strong push here for sentencing reform in the United States.

I thank you. That would be consistent with your competent, independent, and honest characteristics of the FBI.

You don't tell us it is quite impossible to compete with us.