Madam President, I thank the Senator for his comments. As Senator Cornyn lives down at the border and as his State is on the border, he is well familiar with that part of the world. As it turns out, as the former chairman of the Homeland…

One in two, the number of Delawareans living with a preexisting condition, including cancer survivors and those with chronic diseases. Before the Affordable Care Act, having a preexisting condition meant your access to healthcare was in…

Madam President, the remarks just concluded by my friend and colleague from Tennessee help make it clear why many of us do not look forward to his departure at the end of the upcoming Congress to the better vales of retirement. We are so…

Mr. President, I rise to talk about the Wood Heater Emissions Reduction Act, or WHERA, which I am introducing today with my good friend (Ms. Murkowski), the senior Senator from Alaska. In 2005, my dear friend, former Senator Voinovich…

Mr. President, I rise today with two of our colleagues, Senator Ed Markey and Senator Jeff Merkley, to reflect on the 24th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that concluded just this last weekend in the…

Mr. President, I thank my distinguished colleague, the Senator from Wyoming, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. The Coastal Barrier Resources Act is an important, free-market conservation tool that does not regulate…

Mr. President, I thank my colleague for his confirmation of my understanding. In conclusion, I also want to thank my colleague for working with me and all of our colleagues to enact this bipartisan legislation into law. During a time of…

Mr. President, I am proud to once again join the Senators from Arizona and New Jersey on the floor to ask for a vote on the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act. We have come three times now to ask for a vote--just a vote--on…

Mr. President, today, I am pleased to join my colleague Senator Wicker in honoring Rex Buffington, a friend and public servant who will soon retire from the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership, where he has served as…

Mr. President, I am proud to stand before you today to honor my dear friend and colleague, Senator Flake of Arizona, and to pay tribute to his remarkable work here in the Senate as this optimistic evangelist of democracy. I have been asked…

I thank my colleague, friend, and ranking member, Collin Peterson, for his wisdom and steadfast leadership through the farm bill reauthorization process, Chairman Conaway, and to all of the staff, who worked tirelessly. Mr. Speaker, I rise…

Madam President, I am honored to have the opportunity to join my colleagues and rise today to speak in tribute to my friend Senator Bob Corker and in recognition of his remarkable service to our Nation here in the Senate of the United…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection.

Mr. President, the Presiding Officer knows I spent a little time in the Navy. So did my father. My father enlisted in the Navy right before World War II broke out. He was not 18. George Herbert Walker Bush, I think on his 18th birthday…

Mr. President, I was prepared to ask the Senator to modify his request to the Senate and, instead, take up a bill that I have introduced that basically reflects what the Secretary has done and what the House has done and is at the desk…

I don't get to object to unanimous consent requests every day. I think I will do that in this case just to see what it feels like, but do it in the spirit of trying to get something done. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is an objection to the…

Thank you, Mr. President. In the wake of 9/11, Congress took a fresh--I want us to walk back in time a little bit to how we actually got here today. In the wake of 9/11, Congress took a fresh look at some of our Nation's vulnerabilities…

Good. All right. Thank you. Democracy. What did Churchill say? Democracy is the worst form of government devised by way of man, except for all the rest. He also said that you can always count on America to do the right thing in the end…