I am so glad you used the story and told the story of your neighbor, because your neighbor is not unlike my neighbors. They're suffering from unemployment; they're suffering from high gas prices. But what confuses me and what's gotten me…

Today the House will vote on yet another environmental ruinous bill. This motion would instruct surface transportation conferees to retain the language of H.R. 2273, which prohibits the EPA from regulating coal ash. Coal ash is the toxic…

Since the beginning of the 112th Congress, we have held over 30 Energy and Power Subcommittee and joint subcommittee hearings. We have held over a dozen subcommittee and full committee markups, and including H.R. 4480, which we will vote…

I want to thank the ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee and let him know how much I appreciate not only his leadership on other issues, but particularly his leadership on this issue here. Mr. Speaker, I stand here…

Americans have a penchant for believing that more is always better. That unfettered and unabridged access will solve problems. H.R. 2578, the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, purports to create jobs by violating or eliminating over 35…

I enjoyed listening to my Republican colleagues talk about the Constitution and how a bill becomes a law. I taught freshman civics. And when a bill passes both Chambers, the bill then goes to the President. The President then signs a bill…

The House Republicans are doing nothing short of sabotaging our economy and jeopardizing millions of jobs by refusing to pass a long-term, well-funded transportation bill like the bipartisan Senate bill. There were 74 Senators, including…

I had obligations that necessitated my attention in Champaign, Illinois and missed suspension votes on S. 684, a bill to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah and S. 404, a bill to modify a land…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The DREAM Act

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), and the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) are necessarily absent.

Madam President, more than two centuries ago, in the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers wrote that ``all men are created equal.'' America has sometimes fallen short of that ideal, but the history of our country has been a…

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.

On June 15, 1982, 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe. In 1975, the State of Texas had passed a law that allowed public schools to refuse admission to children who were undocumented. The law…

Mr. President, I come to the floor now with my friend and colleague from the State of Oklahoma, Senator Coburn, to discuss an amendment we hope to offer to the farm bill, which I believe is the pending matter before the Senate. I will make…

Mr. President, for the record, I want to be recorded as an affirmative on the previous nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's vote will so be noted.

Mr. President, I listened carefully to the speech given on health care reform, and I would like to put in perspective what the challenge is that faces America. Absent health care reform, absent a change in the growing increase in the cost…

I ask consent to speaking as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Health Care Reform

Mr. President, are we in morning business? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the agriculture bill.