Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tribute to Summer Mersinger

Madam President, I rise to recognize the end of an era in my office in Washington, DC, because at the end of the year, Summer Mersinger will be leaving my office. She has been in my office for 15 years. She comes from a small town in…

Madam President, are we in morning business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are postcloture on the Adler nomination. ObamaCare

So you would make those findings available to Congress at the appropriate time if confirmed?

Thank you, Senator McCaskill, for agreeing to chair this hearing to consider the nominations of Mark Rosekind to be the next Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Bella Dinh-Zarr to be a Member of the…

As I stated in our hearing last month regarding faulty Takata airbags, the string of recalls this year has been cause for grave concern.

NHTSA can't connect the dots when it matters the most, the public, American public, seemed to be losing confidence.

I am holding the State conservationists accountable for getting that backlog cleared out.

One of the biggest issues and concerns in the State of South Dakota and its number one industry, agriculture, is this proposed rule concerning Waters of the United States.

I wanted to reiterate to you and remind you of your obligation and responsibility as well as that of Secretary Vilsack and others at USDA to make absolutely certain that you guard the welfare and well-being of production agriculture and…

Very good. Madam President, I wish to speak today about some of what is happening here with the agenda and where we might be headed. I think it is important to point out that the Democrats here, after this election, seem to be in disarray…

Madam President, I rise to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the nomination of Ms. Nani Coloretti to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The HUD Deputy Secretary is a critical component of the…

A lot of the focus has been on finding the right penalty for domestic violence, but would you agree that, at its core, the solution will require athletes to take responsibility for their own conduct and use the same self-discipline that…

At the time of the June 16 meeting, the NFL also knew that there was a camera inside the elevator and thought it was likely that there was a video from the camera.

When might we expect the Mueller investigation to conclude?

I think the NFL's initial response to this matter was completely inadequate.

Will that be a public report and will it detail the results of that investigation?

We failed. The Commissioner failed to impose the proper discipline in the Ray Rice case in the very beginning.