Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``The Al-Megrahi Release: One Year…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate…

Mr. President, I listened to the statement made by my good friend--and he is my good friend--Senator Enzi from Wyoming. We are in the seventh month since the Affordable Care Act became law. Ever since the day President Obama signed the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security be authorized…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on National Parks, and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forest be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate to conduct a hearing on September 29, 2010, at 2:30…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 2:15 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee…

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 September 29, 2010, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

I thank the gentleman from Washington for yielding. I came down here to the floor out of support for Guam, half a day, where America's day begins. And the first cup of coffee in America is there on Guam. So I have a special place in my…

But I think our responsibility is twofold: one, to look at what's happening to the lowest income students in this country, what's happening to their lives; and then our obligation to protect taxpayers, what's happening to the taxpayers'…

Thank you so very much, Senator Harkin, for being the champion of so many people who cannot speak for themselves or are afraid to do what I am doing here today.

Tom Harkin will never again work in the United States Congress.

We will be exploring legislative changes to get this system right again.

this committee is taking the vital first steps to eliminating the bad actors within the for-profit sector.

I intend to continue this investigation to shine more sunlight on this sector of higher education.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Energy be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 29, 2010, at 10 a.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I know the Senator from Montana wants to speak. If he could just withhold for a few moments for my opening comment, and then I will yield to him.

One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ``grandfathered plans.'' If you have a plan you like--existing policies--you…

Mr. President, before I yield to the Senator from Connecticut, I listened to my friend from Wyoming before the minority leader spoke. He was reading from the Federal Register, if I am not mistaken, saying that any change--and he kept…