I announce that the Senator from New York (Mrs. Gillibrand) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 59, nays 40, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 221 Ex.] YEAS--59 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin…

it is important that the United States leads.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I will share a conversation that I had with Anna Kate, who is a constituent of mine in my district. She called my office absolutely distraught; this was late in the day of the shooting. She…

There have been more mass shootings this year than there have been days in the year.

There is no doubt that we have a gun violence crisis in our country.

To reduce gun violence, we need stable revenue to research it and combat it.

We need Federal gun legislation that limits the number of guns that exist in our country.

The head of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force is a gun owner. Val Demings is a gun owner.

I have eight 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…

I have been on the floor quite a few times about an industry which is controversial: for-profit schools. If you want to know about for-profit colleges and universities, you have to remember two numbers, and the numbers are these: 8 and 33…

the bill would codify the Boots to Business Program, which offers transitioning service Members and military spouses information about self-employment and business ownership.

I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 54, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 218 Ex.] YEAS--54 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 86, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 215 Ex.] YEAS--86 Baldwin Barrasso…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. For-Profit Colleges and Universities

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), and the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 76, nays 21, as follows: [Rollcall…

I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 95, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 216 Ex.] YEAS--95 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman…

the national shortage of parking is a safety crisis.

I applaud the Biden Administration's recent move to provide full debt relief to the over half a million students who were ripped off by Corinthian Colleges.