Mr. President, the Senate is sort of wrapping up its business, if you will, until after the election. It is ironic, in a way, that there are so many big issues in front of us as a nation--so many challenges--yet we are talking about things…

I will really miss our Ranking Member, Senator Hutchison.

There was a report out yesterday that I was proud to see. It came out of Bloomberg News, that recent graduates from a South Dakota engineering college, the South Dakota School of Minds and Technology, are earning more than recent graduates…

There have been countless national, local and private programs aimed at improving STEM education, but there continues to be little discernible change in either student achievement or student interest in STEM.

On that point, it looks as if what they are doing is running out the clock, doesn't it? They have a requirement by September 6--last week--to produce at least their proposal. It is by law. We passed it. He signed it into law back in…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my colleagues from Arizona, Alabama and New Hampshire. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. SEQUESTRATION

Mr. President, we come to the floor today to talk about the sequestration and the looming fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, the White House missed an important deadline last week by failing to provide Congress and the American people with a…

If the Senator from Alabama will yield on that, I think it is important again to point out this could be avoided. Actually, the House of Representatives passed a budget trying to avoid it. They addressed this in their budget. They…

Right, and it passed months ago. We all talk about the jobs impact, the Warren Act notices that are going to go out, and all the uncertainty created by not knowing what the impact of this is going to be, but the House of Representatives…

Mr. President, I yield back the remainder of our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader. MIDDLE EAST UNREST Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, the attacks this week on our diplomats, our installations, and diplomatic security…

Mr. President, all week my Democratic colleagues in the Senate have been coming to the floor and using scare tactics and demagoguery on the so-called Ryan budget. Of course, what they are referring to is the budget that was passed by the…

Some of your previous testimony that was given over on the Senate side, it appeared that some of the conversation was trying to get clarification on what the policy really was.

Mr. Speaker, as we approach the end of this week, we come even closer to the date on which our farm bill will expire, which is on September 30, in just a short period of time. Yesterday, we had a rally here on the Capitol grounds that…

Madam Speaker, today, I wanted to bring to the attention of my colleagues something that is of utmost importance to this country and our food supply and to this Nation's farmers and ranchers. It is the importance of getting a farm bill…

This memo has created a lot of conversation in South Dakota and has a lot of concern.

They felt as though they were staged, that they were events where the Department of Energy was dictating and delivering information, but not necessarily seeking advice or asking for comments or questions.

They have had a 30 percent increase in their rates that they have had to pass on the last 3 years to their customers that they can directly attribute just to regulations that they are forced to comply with that come from the Federal…

the utilities continuously invest in their infrastructure when they have an, on average, 2.3 customers per mile that they are trying to serve.