Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that amendment No. 3665 be called up and immediately considered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator…

Madam President, my amendment only kills the bill---- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.

Thank you. Let me, while I have the floor, call attention to this document that is on our desks. It is the Executive Calendar that is placed every day on our desks. Since we have been at our desks now for many hours, I actually had the…

Mr. President, as Chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I am pleased to join the Committee's Ranking Member, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, and my distinguished colleague from Illinois, Senator Richard Durbin, in…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness of the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on March 25, 2010, at 2:30 p.m., in…

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 is as follows: (Purpose: To increase women's access to breast cancer…

Mr. President, this amendment is very straightforward. It would repeal the ObamaCare bill. That bill is fatally flawed in terms of its core, and we do need to repeal and replace it with a very different, more targeted, focused…

Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 3668 and ask for its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Louisiana [Mr. Vitter] proposes an amendment…

I thank Ranking Member Camp for yielding me this time. We are talking about jobs, and this bill purports to be a job- creation bill, but I have deep reservations about one of the pay-fors in the bill. It is in section 301. It raises $7.7…

I urge support of amendment No. 3553. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana is recognized.

Mr. President, this amendment is very simple, and it goes to the heart of all of these arguments. This amendment would repeal this new ObamaCare plan. All of us on this side urge this action and urge us to focus instead on a focused…

Mr. President, at this point I ask unanimous consent to set aside any pending amendment and call up amendment No. 3553. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To repeal the government takeover of health care) Strike all…

I want to respond to what was just said about these tax provisions, and that is, the previous administration actually wanted to work through these treaties and recognized that there were some problems but did not just simply want to…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record two letters relating to my amendment. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: LSU Health Sciences Center, October 23…

Mr. President, a short time ago the distinguished majority leader urged there to be amendments to improve the bill, not to do any harm to the broader ObamaCare bill. This is exactly such an amendment. This amendment would pass my Mobile…

Mr. President, again like so many Americans, I was deeply disappointed by last night's House vote. At its core, that health care reform legislation will put the government between us and our doctors. It will raise health care costs…

I stand to talk about health care on this significant day, the day after the House passed the ObamaCare bill and the day before the reconciliation bill comes here to the Senate. Needless to say, I am deeply disappointed by the House's…