we just heard the astounding claim that it would be a waste of time to allow individual Senators to come here and do what they were elected to do, which is to offer improvements to pending legislation. We are not a rubberstamp for the…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kelly). Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Requests

the pending measure, the House message to accompany H.R. 815, contains an emergency designation: on page 12, lines 3 through 6, and another emergency designation on page 12, lines 12 through 15. I, therefore, raise a point of order…

If the objection is that my proposal is somehow not germane, then I will offer up another amendment. I want to bring up Lee amendment No. 1857 for consideration. It would ensure that the repayment of the loan Congress seems so determined…

I echo and endorse the wise comments just uttered by my friend and colleague, the distinguished Senator from Missouri. What we are witnessing here is the destruction of the legislative process in the Senate. The Senate is here today…

it is profoundly distressing--disappointing, to say the least--that these commonsense amendments have been so cavalierly objected to and have been met only with one-word objections. Although my amendment to strike the emergency…

This really is too bad. These are some really good amendments. Apparently, we are not allowed to have those. We are just allowed to sing off of whatever hymnal they happen to hand us that has been preblessed by the law firm of Schumer…

The fact is that with the EPA, they are out over their skis.

I wish some of our Democrat colleagues were here today to hear how disastrous President Biden's energy policies have been for the American people.

These regulations are crippling people, especially the EPA.

Speaker Johnson said he was a wartime Speaker and was a child of the eighties influenced by Reagan who went to the Berlin Wall and said: ``Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.'' I am a child of the sixties and John Kennedy, and I heard him…

I call up my amendment No. 1840, and I ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Lee] proposes an amendment numbered…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Reed). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Utah.

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 30 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request

So if that really is the concern--that is the concern I am hearing from some colleagues. A number of colleagues on both sides of the political aisle have been telling me--I have been talking about the need to vote on amendments. What a…

as I explained on the Senate floor yesterday, the House FISA reauthorization bill, known as RISAA, has a lot of problems--more problems than a math book. Not only are the bill's purported reforms mostly fake--and where they are not fake…

This is not too much. We should all be able to support this just as 77 of us did in 2020. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.

I appreciate the thoughtful words that have been presented by my friend and colleague, the distinguished Senator from Virginia, who also chairs the Senate's intelligence oversight committee. It is unfortunate that he is unwilling to have…