I thank the gentleman for yielding. We are running out of legislative days before the end of the year, and instead of focusing on jobs or the economy, the House leadership has decided once again to consider legislation that endangers and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on this issue. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Protect Life Act, a bill which will apply the decades-old Hyde amendment policy prohibiting taxpayer funding of…

With regard to our policy toward Iran and the recent revelation of a potential attack involving not just foreign embassies and ambassadors but Americans, potentially Senators, being killed by a plot hatched by the Iranian Revolutionary…

Earlier this year, we learned what opponents of choice really think of women when they attempted to redefine rape in H.R. 3, when they claimed to be fiscal watchdogs and then voted to repeal funding for family planning services and Planned…

Mr. President, my Republican colleagues have frequently come to the Senate floor to criticize President Obama for his handling of terrorism cases. They have argued regularly and consistently that terrorism suspects should never be…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy of the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on October 13, 2011, at 10 a.m., in…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on October 13, 2011, at 2:30 p.m. hearing. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on October 13, 2011, at 10 a.m., in SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct an executive…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet on October 13, 2011, at 2:15 p.m. in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on October 13, 2011, at 10 a.m. to conduct a hearing entitled ``Addressing Potential…

I come to the floor a second time, as I promised a couple of weeks ago, to talk about high-level nuclear waste in the Yucca Mountain repository. Two weeks ago I highlighted Hanford, Washington, a DOE site that has 53 million gallons of…

Mr. President, the events of this week are an indication that much needs to be done in Washington to deal with the state of our economy. With 14 million Americans out of work, it is high time that both political parties find a way to…

I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mrs. Hagan), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Lieberman), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Stabenow) are…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on October 13, 2011, at 2 p.m., in SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

Mr. President, I wish to thank the Senator from Michigan for bringing us together and making the point, as clearly as we can make it, that last night we had a chance to launch maybe the most important single issue in debate that we can…

Mr. President, our country continues to struggle with the aftereffects of the housing bubble and the economic mistakes of the previous decade. There has been a great human cost to this economic slump--families forced out of their homes…

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) would vote ``no.''