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Madam President, I am pleased to present the fiscal year 2012 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and related agencies appropriations bill to the Senate. The bill was unanimously reported out of the committee on June 30. It is a…
Madam President, the amendment is not germane to the bill. I am trying to keep this bill bipartisan and free of extraneous matters. Therefore, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.
Mr. President, I believe Senator Kirk would like to speak in favor of the motion to waive and I yield him as much time as he may consume. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.
Mr. President, I yield the floor and reserve the remainder of my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
Madam President, there is a cloture motion at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cloture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the clerk to read the motion. The assistant bill clerk read as follows: Cloture…
Mr. President, I thank the Senator for his courtesy and reserve the remainder of my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alabama.
Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum under rule XXII be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: On page 114 between lines 18 and 19, insert the following…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Michael Barrie Rhemann, an intern with the Senate Appropriations Committee, be accorded floor privileges during consideration of H.R. 2055. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…
I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order and pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico.) Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 556
Mr. President, as we all know, in the next few weeks we are going to have to be faced with a decision about what to do with the debt limit, and of course there has been a lot of discussion around here as well as between the White House and…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside, and I call up my amendment No. 556, which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The bill clerk…
My colleague is absolutely right. There was tremendous interest this year. If we look at the last election, the 2010 election, a lot of the people who were elected in the House and Senate were elected because they ran on a message to their…
I think it has dramatically changed and continues to change agriculture in rural America.
Bio-based products hold an exciting future for agriculture and potentially can help the United States to recapture chemicals and manufacturing jobs.
Madam President, I want to echo some of the remarks made by my colleague from Alabama regarding a budget. He is the ranking Republican member on our side on the Budget Committee. It is ironic that we are on the floor of the Senate this…
Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of Representatives Terry and Berg's amendment to H.R. 1309. As you may know, the Missouri River Basin is in the midst of record flooding. In order to determine a trigger date for a flood-in-progress…