This is a plea on behalf 182,000 families who will have students with disabilities in Michigan. Year after year, we continue to fall short on the promise to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which many call IDEA…

From Detroit to Bhopal, we have a right to breathe clean air. This week marks 40 years since the Bhopal chemicals disaster in India, and the survivors are still sick and waiting for justice. Union Carbide, driven by corporate greed, caused…

first of all, I have to say, wouldn't you know I would get laryngitis, and for somebody who is in elected office, we know that that is not a good thing, so please bear with me; and I want to thank Chuck so much for his comments this…

I rise today to honor my friend, my colleague, the senior Senator from the great State of Michigan, Debbie Stabenow. Throughout her entire career, Senator Stabenow has been an absolutely tireless advocate for our State and an unrelenting…

I grew up in the most beautiful, Blackest city in the country, the city of Detroit.

One of the things that is important, and I worked at a nonprofit organization, I felt like I needed to answer a lot of the questions that were asked by my colleagues because the Census numbers impact even how we look at breast cancer among…

there is one more thing that I would like to do. And I want to thank so many people for their kind words--so many ``kinds'' today. I am so grateful for that. But I have one more really important thing that I want to do before I relinquish…

Without updated methods, which we need to update some methods--you know this, it is not just Detroit--many communities because of these policies, it is guaranteed that they will be chronically undercounted.

Do I look white to you?

I am so pleased that my bill to rename the Comstock Park, Michigan, post office after Captain Miguel Justin Nava is being brought up for consideration today. Captain Nava is an American hero. He represented the best of west Michigan. It is…

I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman) that the House suspend the…

While we are on the topic of conservation, I thank my colleagues for working with Democrats not just on this conservation bill but also on the WILD Act, which I am pleased to hear will be included in the NDAA this month. Like the bill…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 7438 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 3746 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 12 noon on Tuesday, December 3; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:45 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 12 noon…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate consider the following nominations en bloc: Calendar Nos. 815 and 827; that the Senate vote on the nominations en bloc without intervening action or debate; that the motions to reconsider be…