I just want to thank you for your support and for everybody up there did such an outstanding job.

Those programs have been very important.

I would like to see more support is with biomass and combined heat and power.

I thank the Senator. I appreciate the opportunity to be here to rise in support of the pending amendment that is based upon, as Senator Blunt mentioned, a piece of legislation that was introduced on a bipartisan basis earlier in the year…

Mr. President, I am pleased to join Senator Merkley, the Presiding Officer, and the others of my colleagues who will come to the floor this afternoon to speak out against the Blunt amendment. Over the past year, we have come to the floor…

I was pleased to work with some members of your staff after the oil spill in the Gulf to try and address the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2011.

I want to echo my colleagues' thanks for all of your effective and hard-working service for our country around the world.

As you know, we have a really serious situation in Egypt.

I think it offers a tremendous opportunity for us to highlight the still critical economic and security ties of our transatlantic partnership.

As you might imagine, the finding is unsettling for those of us on the committee who assume that DOD is faithfully and legally carrying out MILCON projects as specifically authorized by Congress.

Mr. President I come to the floor today with a number of my women Senate colleagues to talk about what happened yesterday at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. They held a hearing on the administration's decision to…

One of the things the Senator talked about so eloquently, as we talked about the ability of our financial systems to impact what is happening in Russia--one of the things we heard about at the hearing on the Magnitsky bill was from the…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Cardin and Senator Wicker for their efforts today coming down to the floor to raise this important human rights issue. As you say, if we didn't see the facts, we would believe this was fiction, what is going…

Around the world, governments are also taking up this important call. The European Parliament, Canada, and The Netherlands are considering similar pieces of legislation. This summer, the U.S. State Department barred dozens of Russian…

Mr. President, we voted 85 to 11 to start work on the highway bill, which is an essential piece of legislation to reauthorize our highway and transit programs. Eight hundred sixty-eight days have passed since our last Federal…

I think this is an unacceptable risk.

They are clearly supporting our enemies and trying to kill our soldiers.

When you throw on top of it, of course, their efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon, no question they are a grave threat to our national security and to that of our allies.