Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 11, 2011, at 2 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on National Parks be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 11, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 11, 2011, at 10:15 a.m., in room…

Mr. President, recently the National Labor Relations Board general counsel issued a complaint against the Boeing Company alleging that the company had violated the National Labor Relations Act. This routine administrative procedure has set…

I think that borders. That is borderline.

What borders almost on unethical activity is for people in the political branch of the Congress to begin to interfere in a judicial process.

Look, we are grateful to the taxpayers of this country for the $19.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 11, 2011, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Ronald Reagan increased the marginal tax rate twice when he was President.

Our future prosperity and the prosperity of our kids and our kids' kids, is at stake right now.

The American dream used to mean something, that if you put in a hard days work you could expect good American wages, decent benefits and a better life for your kids.

the amount of just savings alone on annual flu shots would be incredible, aside from the fact that you wouldn't--I would, from what I understand is if this was really developed, the threat of pandemics would not be as large as they are now…

I'd just like to thank you and this subcommittee for your steadfast support for biomedical research.

And this has always been a death sentence before.

It seems to me this is about as important as Gleevec. I mean, this attacks metastatic melanoma in later stages.

I think about the special forces. Those were Government employees that were in Abbottabad.

we're creating terrible deficits in young scientists and terrible deficits in the public body of knowledge.

this is such an example of public service and why government matters.