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Mr. President, our Presiding Officer, if I am not mistaken, is a veteran himself--I want to say Army. Navy salutes Army. Different uniform, same team. I want to express my thanks to Senator Whitehouse for his comments relating to the…
Thank you, Madam President, and I thank the Senator for yielding to me. Madam President, former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was blessed with many wonderful staff members over the years, and one of them was John DiEleuterio. I…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Gary Jonesi and Kristin Butler, two legislative fellows on my staff, be granted privileges of the floor for the duration of the 116th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…
Madam President, I come to the floor today to add my voice to the debate on the system of checks and balances that are essential to and that define our very democracy. I am here, in no small part, because of a series of events that…
Mr. President, the last time this body--the last time the Senate--debated the fate of a Presidency in the context of impeachment, the legendary Senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, rose and said: I think my country sinks beneath the…
Madam President, 233 years ago, our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia, just a few miles north of us in Delaware. Eleven years earlier, we had declared our independence from the British Crown, the most powerful empire in the world…
On behalf of myself and Senator Klobuchar, I send a question to the desk, addressed to the President's counsel and the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The House will go first in answering the question from Senators Coons and…
Mr. Chief Justice, on behalf of our colleagues Senators Booker, Cardin, Kaine, Markey, Menendez, Merkley, Murphy, and Shaheen, I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator…
Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for the President's counsel. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Coons to the President's counsel is this: The President's brief states, ``Congress has forbidden…
Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator Carper's question is for the House managers: Some have claimed that subpoenaing witnesses or documents would unnecessarily prolong this trial. Isn't it true that…
Every 22 hours, a Delaware family loses a loved one to an overdose. Unfortunately, that figure may increase due to the proliferation of synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Fentanyl has made this national public health emergency increasingly…
Madam President, before the senior Democrat, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, leaves the floor and before the Senator, my colleague from Ohio, leaves the floor, I want to thank them both. We would not be here on this day…
Madam President, I have come to the floor today to talk for a while about the nomination of Paul Ray to serve as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. I will do that, but first I want to take a few minutes to…
Mr. President, before Senator Blackburn arrived on the floor, I talked about Iran, as many of us have. I mentioned the opposition that some folks in Iran had--that the Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force had--to actually entering into…
Mr. President, I want to share with the Senate my reasons for opposing the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith to serve as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Let me begin by saying that I am disappointed to find myself in this…
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I respect my Committee on Energy and Commerce colleagues, but I cannot support this motion to recommit. What we have today is an opportunity to live up to our promise. Democrats promised. Republicans…
Mr. President, I take no joy today in rising to urge my colleagues to join me in voting no on the cloture of the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith to serve as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To my disappointment and dismay…
Mr. President, I thank my colleague and my friend for his leadership, and I thank him for yielding the floor to me. I have been here 19 years. It is pretty hard to believe. Some of my detractors say it seems longer. It has gone by pretty…