Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Bishop Hendricken High School's Academic Decathlon team, the Division II winners of the United States Academic Decathlon National Competition. The team consists of Mitchell Boyer, Ryan Brady, Darragh…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for adjournment occur following the remarks of the Democratic leader. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, as we know here in Washington, politics is a battlefield as much as it is a debating society. On this battlefield, a new form of political weapon has emerged, one for which the American political system was not well…

I think this Committee provides that opportunity, in the past under him and now under Chairman Barrasso.

As we are investing in coastal infrastructure, we need to also make sure we are investing in the planning and the data.

I hope that the Administration will not try to jam Congress on an infrastructure bill, but rather work in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion.

There is no point building to a set of conditions that are not going to be the case in 20 years, not if you are building infrastructure.

Coastal States are seeing a particular problem, particularly with the sea level rise projections that NOAA and that State coastal officials are predicting.

I am always in awe of the tremendous service of the men and women who serve our country all over the world.

I think it is important to push back on this notion of indifference in our foreign policy.

We have to a conclusion as a country that we will promote peace and stability around the world...

One thing that we heard from everyone that we met with in the Balkans was how important EU accession and NATO membership was.

Our foreign policy ought to reflect our values as a country.

Will it have an adverse impact on the work we are doing in the region, the partnerships that we are building?

What really struck me at the time was the central importance to each of these countries that the U.S. continue to support their democracies.

And it will be a negative impact? When there is a nearly 40-percent cut, that would not advance the national security interest of the United States, in your opinion?

I am actually optimistic and hopeful that we are going to be able to get something done on infrastructure.

Mr. President, it is perhaps a providential happenstance that I should be giving this particular speech while the Senator from Louisiana is presiding because we are both from coastal States. I am sure he will find things that are familiar…