Mr. President, I have the sad task today of paying tribute to Specialist Shawn A. Muhr of Coon Rapids, IA, who has fallen in the line of duty in Afghanistan. Specialist Muhr was serving with the 546th Transportation Company, 264th Combat…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Ashley Waddell, David Kerem, and Brian Burroughs of my staff be granted the privileges of the floor during the duration of today's proceedings. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Let me say I also think now is the time to end taxpayer funding not only for abortion but also for abortion providers.

President Obama has urged Americans to find common ground on the controversial issue of abortion.

The need to pass this legislation I believe is self-evident when we think about the extraordinary subsidies, both direct and indirect, in the 'Patient Protection Affordable Care Act' for abortion across government spending.

Planned Parenthood is far and away the largest abortion provider in America, and they are also the largest recipient of Federal funding under Title X.

I believe the time has come for that to end.

For me I can't see much difference between partial birth abortion and dismemberment abortion.

we should go to all steps to stop Federal dollars from going to abortion.

Thomas Jefferson said that the care of human life and its happiness and not its destruction is the chief and only object of good government.

Mr. President, last December I came to the floor to discuss the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee investigation into for-profit online colleges and universities. It is an investigation that has now been going on for almost a…

Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. It is the Presiding Officer's pleasure to recognize the Senator from West Virginia. ____________________

This legislation is really about whether the role of America's government is to continue to fund a practice that takes the lives of over 1 million little Americans every year.

It is axiomatic that when government subsidizes conduct, it encourages it.

this is a ghastly, gruesome and ghoulish procedure, and it is dismemberment abortion.

Mr. President, today we are honored to have as our guest the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, the Honorable Borut Pahor. He is the sixth Prime Minister since Slovenia won independence in 1991. As many of my colleagues know, the…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess subject to the call of the Chair so that we may welcome the Prime Minister of Slovenia and guests on the Senate floor. There being no objection, the Senate, at 4:29 p.m., recessed…

Abraham Lincoln called upon all of us to remember America's Founding Fathers and, 'Their enlightened belief that nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on or degraded and imbruted by its…