Mr. President, I come to the floor this evening inspired by the determined efforts of my colleague Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. My colleague has made clear, by delivering his 200th floor speech on climate change, that he is…

Mr. President, I rise in this historic Chamber to offer my thanks, my respect, and to pay homage to an incredibly valued member of my staff who is about to retire from the U.S. Senate after decades of dedicated service. A New Englander by…

Mr. President, I am grateful to my colleague from Tennessee for yielding to me. One of the reasons Howard Baker was one of the great leaders in this place is he had good staff, and one of those folks, who was maybe the senior member of his…

Mr. President, I was honored when my good friend Senator John McCain reached out to me 2 weeks ago to suggest that we introduce bipartisan legislation here in the Senate that would attempt to solve two of our most pressing immigration…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 2 minutes before we proceed to the cloture vote scheduled at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 1955

I thank my friend, Mr. Nadler, for yielding and for his leadership on this issue. Mr. Chairman, as a former Delaware Secretary of Labor, I rise today to strongly oppose H.R. 620, the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017. This bill on the…

Mr. President, I come to the floor to talk about an issue that has occupied this floor, this body, this Congress for some time now: the challenge of how to fix our broken immigration system. As many of us have debated and talked and tried…

Mr. President, I don't want to get in the way of a disagreement between two of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I would just say to Senator Grassley that there was a hearing today before the Environment and Public Works…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to join my colleagues, both Republican and Democrat, in raising the alarm about a decision I believe represents politicized policymaking at its very worst. Just a few weeks ago, we were notified…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Without objection, it is so ordered. Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling

Mr. President, today I rise to address an issue that probably is not of great concern to the citizens of Arizona, but, certainly, it is of a lot of concern for people who happen to live on the east coast and the west coast of our Nation. I…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for the opportunity to speak at this Special Order hour. Mr. Speaker, as the former secretary of labor and head of personnel for the State of Delaware, I am here this evening on the floor of the House…

Mr. President, I would like to thank Senator Hatch for his leadership on intellectual property issues throughout his distinguished career in the Senate. I was pleased to join him in securing the passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act in…

Mr. President, as a native West Virginian, I want to say how proud I am of our colleague, Mr. Manchin. Perhaps you have heard the old saying: I am Tom Carper or I am so- and-so, and I approve this message. We do a lot of that on political…

Mr. President, as we know all too well, the Senate of the United States has an annual job to do--to adopt a budget and then appropriate it; to lay out the framework for what to spend and then to make deliberate decisions in the…

Mr. President, it is a pleasure to be on the floor tonight with my friend the Senator from Alaska. The Navy salutes the Marine Corps and salutes him for his service before. Now I just want to follow up on a couple of things that he…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to talk about the vital importance of the connection between the arts, education, and progress. I am from a little town in Delaware named Hockessin. Hockessin was not much when I grew up there. We…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. National Endowment for the Art and National Endowment for the Humanities Funding