Mr. President, I rise this evening to speak about a simple amendment that would go a long way to save a lot of jobs in our timber industry and our forested communities. To give a little bit of background, the collapse of the housing market…

Mr. President, today I am introducing a bill to right a bureaucratic wrong that has prevented capable and qualified veterans from serving their home States as work-study students in Congressional offices. For years, veterans have served in…

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation to help create jobs and lower energy bills for businesses and multi-family residences. This bill would create a program called Building Star, designed to promote energy-saving commercial…

It's kind of ironic that our friend from California got up and talked about why we don't do what Ronald Reagan and President Kennedy would have done. We've done that. We've cut taxes. We cut taxes several times before that. In fact, his…

I appreciate the courtesy of my friend, the gentleman from North Carolina, in permitting me to speak on this. This piece of legislation is, sadly, a product of our time with a breakdown with our friends on the other side of the Capitol…

Thank you. I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to follow my dear friend from Ohio with whom I look forward to the day when we can come to this floor and we can deal with a broad-based…

What I said, and I want to be clear if I misrepresented it, is that the $77 billion in transportation funding will protect or create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That's what I said.

The bill includes $77 billion of transportation funding. That was my reference. I think the experts agree that it would be hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not 1 million, saved or created with that transportation funding. I appreciate the…

I strongly support H. Res. 1097, Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week. Throughout my career at the local, State and Federal level, I have worked with engineers in Oregon and around the country on some of the world's…

Mr. President, along with Senators Cantwell, Mikulski, Cardin, Dodd, and Merkley, I am reintroducing legislation that will repeal the authority granted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to…

Madam President, I rise to address the Republican filibuster attacking the American worker and the Republican filibuster attacking America's small businesses. I had the chance to go home this weekend. I started my trip home in Deschutes…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, consistent with Senate standing orders and my policy of publishing in the Congressional Record a statement whenever I place a hold on legislation, I am announcing my intention to object to any unanimous consent request to…

In 2001, I voted against the USA PATRIOT Act because it granted law enforcement powers too broad, too removed from oversight, and at the expense of Americans' civil rights. I am disappointed that H.R. 3961 simply extends three of these…

I am deeply disturbed that one could be so disconnected from the challenges of working Americans as to have us in the situation we are in at this moment.

My friend from Tennessee has made some comments about the process. I must say I very much respected the dialog he has been involved in, in the Banking Committee, through the year I have served on that committee, working to find the right…

The end of March. But there are many people who lose their benefits much sooner if we do not pass this extension?

I thank the Senator. I have before me a chart on workers losing Federal unemployment benefits at the beginning of March. It notes ``Workers Exhausting Regular State Benefits without Additional Federal Extensions'' as 380,000 workers. Then…