I yield 10 minutes to the Senator from Alabama. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama is recognized.

Madam President, I have an amendment at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Coburn] proposes an amendment numbered 3700.

Reserving the right to object, it is my understanding if we were to do that we would add $9.2 billion to the debt. I am wondering if that is correct. The same unanimous consent request was asked earlier today, and the head of the Finance…

I ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To help protect Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans) At…

They lost it under their health care. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.

Pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and section 4(g)(3) of the Statutory Pay-as-you-go Act of 2010, I move to waive all applicable sections of those acts and applicable budget resolutions for purposes of my…

Mr. President, I wish to spend a few minutes talking about where we are as a nation and what the future is for our children. We have at this point in time $12.6 trillion worth of debt. We now have equivalent debt for every man, woman, and…

About another 30 or 45 minutes. I will be glad to signal that ahead of time so the Senator would not have to wait on me. I will make sure the Senator is notified before I finish. I kind of lost my train of thought. The fact is, about 47…

I thank the Senator for his question. If you look at Thomson Reuters and several others who have studied the health care field, the estimate for defensive medicine costs is $250 billion a year. It is not just that we order tests that…

Mr. Speaker, I share my colleagues' concerns about what's in the bill, but I'm also concerned by what's not in the bill and, frankly, that's money to fund the settlement of the so-called Cobell lawsuit. As my colleagues on both sides of…

I thank the Senator from New Hampshire. As I contemplate what is happening at 62 years of age and looking back through my life, this is undoubtedly the greatest assault on liberty this country has ever had. It is not direct; it is…

I think there are two reasons. One is because there is large support of those who wrote this legislation by those who benefit from suing doctors. That is pretty straightforward. And the doctor's only defense is to order tests which they…

Reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.

What happens to all this? What is the ultimate? The ultimate is failure of the insurance market.

We got this 1\1/2\ minutes ago to see the language. You have an amendment on the floor that actually accomplishes everything you want to do. Why are we doing this? Because you do not want to mess up a package that is clean. It has every…

I would make the following point: The vast majority of Americans do not want their taxpayer dollars paying for this kind of drug for those kind of people. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.

Mr. President, do I have time remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma still has time. The Senator from Oklahoma.

Mr. President, this amendment saves $6.5 billion over the next 10 years for what it does on fraudulent Medicaid prescriptions-- $6.5 billion--$650 million a year on fraudulent prescriptions. It also creates a prohibition so that erectile…