Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, at 12 noon on Tuesday, January 30, the Senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of Executive Calendar No. 4. I further ask that there be 20 minutes of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kennedy). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act. Specifically, this bill says directly that Federal taxpayer dollars could not be used to provide abortions…

I hope we can work with you in beginning to shift a lot of the--giving the States, I guess I would say, more flexibility when it comes to designing plans that work in our States.

I applaud President Trump for making this issue a top priority.

This Order instructs Federal departments and agencies to identify at least two prior regulations for elimination for each new regulatory proposed.

I guess I am asking you if you would commit to work with us to ensure that pass-through businesses are treated fairly.

Mr. President, today I recognize Dr. Erica Towle, a Knauss Sea Grant fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, for all of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and other members of the committee…

Just because you are pro-economic development and pro-economic development growth does not mean that you have to be anti-environment.

I am not going to ask you to make commitments, but would you please look at and just agree that you will give it fair consideration that we find a fairer way to make sure that these folks that literally have homes that it is all they got.

What we should be doing is providing them with a service, which they are entitled to.

We need to bring back a little bit of common sense and have the people associated with those tribes involved in that decision making.

I would just like--I am not sure that you even had a chance to look at any of the materials that we had shared with you, but there was a real strong concern on the part of Native Americans in the rural areas that the current formula in…

I think veterans can be a healing balm for all of us because we can all agree on that.

This is a system which is broken.

I think there was some concern that you are not a housing expert, and that you do not have a background in construction and so forth. And I got to thinking that it seems to me that probably running this department is not really brain…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for the weekly conference meetings and the time in recess count equally against S. Con. Res. 3; further, that Senator Sanders or his designee control the…

Mr. President, clarifying that recent request, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for the weekly conference meetings but that that time not count against S. Con. Res. 3. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore…