Mr. President, I again ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Internet

Simply, GEN Michael Walsh is someone I have known for a long time. He is an extraordinary soldier and a patriotic American who doesn't deserve, and never deserved, to have his promotion derailed for 6 months by one Member of the Senate…

I love the free market. I think it is the best allocator of goods and services that I have ever seen, but it needs a referee and you are a regulator.

The marketplace would pick winners and losers.

It really comes down to the point of the head here that we have always had a nondiscrimination requirement.

I want you to make things happen and make good things happen. So I support what you are trying to do.

Mr. President, we invoked cloture last evening on a motion to proceed to legislation that will extend unemployment benefits during what has been the deepest recession since the Great Depression. We have had objections from the other side…

I do not want over-regulation for sure.

I do not want over-regulation, but I want you to use the right touch to make sure that the referee is doing what the referee must do to keep the free market free.

I think there are two ways ahead as well. One is using your existing authority.

I mean the opposition to that is to say, no, we are for a discrimination policy.

I opposed it at the time. But we need to find a way, in my judgment, to restore that which always existed.

Mr. President, we are going to have a cloture vote this evening at 5:30. It is about a subject that is very important. Yet I have been listening to the floor today and hearing the discussion about saving our country, about the issue of…

I wrote the provision that requires Section 935 of the National Defense Authorization Act.

I included that provision which required DOD and FAA to develop a national solution for military U.S. access in the National airspace.

Madam President, this is a pretty disappointing thing to see on the floor of the Senate--a discussion about the potential of having unemployment insurance at this point in time lapse, let it lapse during one of the steepest recessions…

Mr. President, my staff, working with the staff of the Finance and HELP Committees, has spent an enormous amount of time ensuring that this bill complies with the rules of the reconciliation process. The majority and minority staffers have…

Mr. President, I want to add to my comments from earlier today regarding the passage of H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. I want to again acknowledge and thank my staff for their extraordinary effort and…