Mr. President, I thank my friend from North Dakota, because I, too, for what it is worth, have been very distressed about the conversations around financial reform. I don't think either side of the aisle deserves a badge of honor as it…

A great cedar, a great lion, a leader, a golden-throated warrior and silver-tongued orator of the Gospel, and a great civil rights icon, Benjamin Hooks, fell in Memphis, Tennessee this morning. The Reverend Benjamin L. Hooks was the head…

You had one, and that is all you asked for when you started. I do not want to reiterate that. I never said I could speak for anybody but myself. And I did not leave the table. I never left the table. So the fact is, the bill took a…

I will respond respectfully that I think the course of action that is trying to get underway is to finish the bipartisan-- let's face it. You and I went a long way. Then we stopped. On March 10 it ended. I understood that, look, you were…

I have repeatedly publicly thanked the good Senator from Connecticut for going through that process, and there is no question it is a much better bill. As a matter of fact, I think it is a very amendable bill. Here is what I would say. I…

I came to the floor of the Senate because my friend from Connecticut, who is my friend, made numerous comments about the process. I hope that possibly he would be willing to enter into a colloquy. I will give a preamble, if I may. There is…

Madam President, I come to the floor today to talk about financial reform. I know we have a number of issues before the body right now, and it will be a couple of weeks, maybe 3, before this body takes up what I think is a very important…

Today is Tax Day, of course, and that is somewhat of a dreaded day in many people's minds. But the fact is in the past year we have had more tax cuts than almost any time in our Nation's history. But with President Obama and this Congress…

Mr. President, I appreciate it. I had not planned to come to the floor today, but my great friend, Senator Warner from Virginia, is here. I did want to clarify a couple of things. I did not hear all of his comments. I very much appreciate…

Mr. President, I want to speak for 60 more seconds and then stop. I thank the Senator from Montana and the Senator from Florida for allowing me to do this. I want to be clear and say we have had a great partnership, numbers of us have…

Mr. President, I wish to speak for a couple of minutes. I think I have permission to do that. Then I wonder if I can have permission from the Presiding Officer to enter into maybe a couple of minutes colloquy with my friend from Virginia…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for the time. And, Mr. Chairman, last month the Federal Communications Commission released its National Broadband Plan which contained some very ambitious recommendations with respect to spectrum…

I want to thank the chairman for his diligent work on this bill and also Mr. Stearns for his leadership as we worked through these issues in committee. And I do rise in support of the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act. In committee, I…

I thank the subcommittee chairman for his explanation, and I associate myself with his remarks. I share the chairman's expectation regarding the importance of collecting and analyzing the data in the spectrum inventory before making…

I would yield to the gentleman from Virginia and ask permission for the colloquy.

It is so interesting to be a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives at this time. One of the things that makes it most interesting is the issues that we have to deal with, and it boils down to making choices: what are you going to…

Mr. President, I wish to thank the Senator from New Hampshire who I think has offered extraordinary leadership on this issue and on the issues regarding our country's huge amount of indebtedness. As does Senator Gregg, I find it hard to…

Mr. President, I might meditate for about 60 seconds and step back up. I now notice the absence of a quorum, unless I should give it to the other side.