I hope we can work together this year on some bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform and helping -- and helping people who are battling prescription drug abuse.

Last week, the Biden administration announced that they are cutting off the benefits for 60,000 National Guard and Reserve soldiers who do not want to take the COVID vaccine. We are losing some of our best and brightest servicemembers to…

Protecting our Nation's public health requires achieving clean air for all Americans, yet our current air monitoring system is woefully deficient, both in terms of capacity and capability.

We saw this again in 2005 in the Sauget community of St. Louis, which is an area of importance to Senator Duckworth.

It is outrageous that in the wealthiest Country in the world, communities of color are exposed to 63 percent more air pollution than they create.

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:19 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, July 13, 2022, at 10:30 a.m…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.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

I ask unanimous consent that the concurrent resolution be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I announce that the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Blumenthal), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy), the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Lujan), and the Senator from New York (Mr. Schumer) are necessarily absent.

I have seven requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a) of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

today, the Senate will vote on Steve Dettelbach's nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives--better known as ATF. As I said on the floor yesterday, after describing in horrifying detail the mass shooting…

last month the Supreme Court completed one of its most consequential and, in many ways, disastrous terms in American history, issuing a flurry of decisions that have upended our constitutional landscape. In the scope of just a few weeks…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration and that the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 653. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 703, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 13; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved…

for the information of the Senate, the first rollcall votes of the day will begin at 11:30 a.m. ____________________