Promise me that you will work with us on that. Promise me that you will not get ideological when it comes to solving this problem and that you will work to solve it in a sensible, bipartisan, thoughtful way.

I think what we will find is that it actually helps the public fisc as well.

Mr. President, in this season of Thanksgiving, let me say that I am thankful, as I rise for my 187th ``Time to Wake Up'' address, for the spirit of commitment and innovation that this great Nation devotes to tackling the challenge of…

There has been really good bipartisan work done here.

Mr. President, 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 bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 97, nays…

I very much hoped you would say that and use the TVA that way, and I think your ability to model for the rest of the country.

No. Once again, we have been following Senator McCain, and he took us all the way. Thank you

Mr. President, it is our responsibility to ensure that future generations will have greater opportunity and greater security than we inherited from our parents and our forebears. To accomplish this, we must put aside political expedience…

Mr. President, I rise to discuss the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. After several months of negotiations, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have arrived at a completed conference agreement. Earlier today…

I thank the Senator from Maine and the Senator from the great State of Nebraska.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for all of his hard work in putting this bill together. Mr. Speaker, this bill has been in the process for over 7 years in regards to the time I spent on the committee. There have been multiple hearings on…

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the nomination of Dr. Mark Esper to serve as the next Secretary of the Army. The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on his nomination on November 2, and he was voted out of committee…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise, today, in strong opposition to this House Republican tax bill, which was developed in secret without a single public hearing. Despite repeated calls for Republicans to…

Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues have gone too far. Their tax scheme gives $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires as well as wealthy corporations. It raises taxes on 36 million middle class families; makes deep…

Mr. President, I was very pleased to be here for the remarks of my colleagues and friends, and I would just respond by saying that we are all for growth. We are all for growth of the American economy. I think, on this side, we are just a…

As long as there is no price on carbon, the corollary of that is that there is no benefit to low carbon.

I think that there is significant technological opportunity to be achieved in that space, but it is rather hard to achieve technological opportunity in a space in which there is no value proposition to the investor.

Madam President, I am here to respond to the nomination of Steven Bradbury for a senior legal position in the U.S. Department of Transportation. I have had some experience with Mr. Bradbury, and in my experience, he is disqualified from…