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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…
Mr. President, I serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as a member of the Bar Association of Delaware, and a Member of the U.S. Senate. I am concerned about the transformation of our Federal judiciary under this current administration…
Madam President, today is about a moment of hope. Today is about a moment of genuine bipartisanship made possible by the discipline and determined leadership of Senators Alexander of Tennessee and Murray of Washington State. I rise to join…
Madam President, it is an honor to rise and speak in tribute to my dear friend and trusted colleague, Johnny Isakson of Georgia. To follow the junior Senator from the State of Georgia, something remarkable happened just before this session…
Mr. President, I am pleased to join Democrat, Republican, and Independent colleagues alike on the floor today. I understand there is an overflow that is going to be back on the floor tomorrow to say the truth and tell the truth about…
Madam President, I rise this afternoon to talk about what some observers have called one of the best historically black colleges and universities in our country--Delaware State University in Dover, DE, home of the Hornets. For a number of…
Madam President, I would like to thank my colleague from our home State of Delaware. I come to the floor to join a number of my colleagues who are speaking on a pressing issue, the critical lapse in funding for hundreds of colleges and…
Mr. President, I rise to talk about something that is really important, I think not only to our Nation and our planet but to me and my family personally. As cochair and cofounder, along with Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, of the Senate…
Thank you for sharing with us the terrific ideas of what businesses around Arkansas and the country are doing to recycle. They do it for a variety of reasons. It is the right thing to do, and a lot of them are committed to being good…
If the gentleman would yield the floor for a moment, I said earlier in my remarks, to paraphrase it again, that it is possible to do good and do well at the same time. It really is. I am just happy that more and more people are doing that…
Mr. President, I have been privileged to serve, and this my 19th year here in the U.S. Senate. A long time ago, I served as a naval officer in the Vietnam war and as later State treasurer, Congressman, Governor of Delaware, and now I serve…
Mr. President, I am here on a sad note and then on a happier note as well. I am going to try to tie the two together. ____________________
Madam President, I come to the floor as a proud Member of this Chamber of the Senate and as someone who believes earnestly in our role in our country's constitutional order. I am on the floor because a real and significant challenge to…
Mr. President, I want to take the next 15 or 20 minutes today to talk about the ongoing situation in Syria and the region surrounding that country. It is a part of the world that some folks might not be all that familiar with, so let's…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that three interns from our Senate office here--Carter Thompson, Gil Connolly, and Tamar Epps--be granted floor privileges for today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…
I am proud to report that last week the Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act. We also passed out of committee H.R. 4671, the Helping Seniors Afford Healthcare Act, which I introduced with my…
Madam President, I rise in support of the Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval of the Trump administration's so- called affordable clean energy rule, which really should be called President Trump's dirty power plan or unclean…
Madam President, I come to the floor to recognize the critical moment that is before us as a country. We have an opportunity to make real progress on bipartisan gun reforms that will help keep our communities safer while respecting our…