Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…

Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Foreign Relations I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

I thank Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this year's bipartisan Water Resources Development Act. Our country was built on an elaborate system of inland waterways, ports, and harbors to…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, we have discussed this before on the floor, and I will not go through that entirely in my part of the discussion here. Four months ago with the CARES Act, we came together and unanimously…

Madam President, reserving the right to object. To date, Congress has appropriated nearly $3 trillion to protect, strengthen, and support Americans in all walks of life, to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and to stabilize the infrastructure…

I thank Chairman DeFazio for yielding. I rise in opposition to amendment No. 124 on both the merits and the process that bring us to the people's House today. I came to Congress to fix issues in southern West Virginia, like our need for…

Madam President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during…

Mr. President and fellow Senators, we are about to do the final vote on Michael Pack. This man is uniquely qualified to hold this position. He has done an outstanding job. Everyone should look at the most recent documentary he did on the…

Mr. President, I would like 3 minutes to close the debate on Michael Pack. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. First of all, let me commend my good friend from Illinois for bringing this. I know he is frustrated, as all of us are, with what has happened with this pandemic that came out of China and…

Thank you. I appreciate these comments. There is nothing that the Senator just stated that I disagree with. One point, in passing, and I say this in the spirit of trying to get to the objective that I laid out, and that is, it is my intent…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, what you are seeing here today is a pure, unadulterated exercise in politics-- politics that are steeped with the difference of political philosophy between the two parties. With relation to…

Madam President, reserving the right to object, let me state the resolution referred to by my friend from Illinois is comfortably residing in the Foreign Relations Committee at the present time and is subject to the regular order of…

Mr. President, along with my colleagues Senator Jim Risch, Representative Mike Simpson and Representative Russ Fulcher, I congratulate Glen Tait, who is retiring from his position as Idaho National Laboratory's--INL--Governmental Affairs…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Not yet. I want to yield to Senator Braun. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Indiana. ____________________

When I disagree with the legislative content, I often consider compromise. But in this case, there is only one reasonable response, and that is a ``no'' vote.