If you like your current plan you will have the option to keep it, and we mean it this time.

I would like to underscore what Senator Gillibrand said about medical information, chart data.

Would you all agree that giving more servicemembers more retirement benefits is a good thing?

This is a very, very important matter to me.

We owe it to them to provide them with something more than they are getting today.

If there are documented savings and there are things we can realize, versus on paper savings, then there is something to be said for turning those savings back into even more benefits for the veterans.

if you like your plan, you can keep it

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The Congressional Black Caucus is delighted to come to the floor this evening to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. At the end of slavery, Mr. Speaker, in 1865, which was 150…

This is about all records and making sure that all records are available to you to do the work that is so important to the American taxpayer.

Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize Stacy Eggers, Jr., of Boone, North Carolina. On March 20, Stacy will be 91 years old, but he hasn't let age slow him down one bit. He still goes daily to his office on West King Street where he has…

Mr. Speaker, this month marks 25 years since John Hood and Marc Rotterman founded the John Locke Foundation with the help of Art Pope and the John William Pope Foundation. While its beginnings may have been small, the John Locke Foundation…

targeted funding means no flexibility. It says, 'You need this. Here's some funds to do it.'

One of the proposals that the Alexander draft clearly states is an opportunity to plus-up title II by $500 million, to fund title IV at $1.

Madam President, I will be brief, but I would like my colleagues' attention because we have an opportunity today to take a program that functions well, that this body designed, funded from royalties off of exploration of energy, that has…

Mr. President, I am pleased to talk about an issue that as Senator Alexander said is near and dear to my heart; that is, ensuring that America's patients have access to the most cutting-edge medical products in as timely a manner as…

Mr. President, I have spoken very briefly on this reauthorization because it is a very simple measure. I urge my colleagues, because it is now pending, when we have an opportunity to vote, and I think that will be sooner rather than later…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To permanently reauthorize the Land and Water…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to pledge my overwhelming support to Senator Tillis on the Outer Continental Shelf amendment that has been placed on the Keystone bill, and I think it is apparent with the direction the…