I rise today to speak about the promise of biomedical innovation in our country, as did Senator Klobuchar. I talk a lot about the importance of biomedical innovation because in my home State of Minnesota there are 400 medical device…

Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act. This act will level the playing field for small business retailers in Minnesota and across the country. I want to thank Senator Enzi for his years of work on this. He…

If the Senator would like to speak for a minute or so, if he has something he would like to say.

Mr. President, the Joint Economic Committee has 30 minutes on our side, and I do not know on the Republican side. I think we are about halfway or more into it.

Mr. President, I think we have made our case here with the $975 billion in spending cuts that are contained in the budget, and the fact that to date we have made $2.4 trillion in debt reduction, and of that 70 percent or $1.5 trillion has…

Mr. President, I will conclude my remarks by saying this is an opportunity to help our State and local governments, but it is a big opportunity to help the employees and workers of this country who work every day, showing those TVs, making…

I want to thank the Senators who joined me today as we work to advance a smart, balanced approach for meeting our country's fiscal challenges. The time is ripe for common ground on a budget plan to move the economy forward. While I don't…

Mr. President, I wish to first thank Senator Murray again for her leadership on the Budget Committee. Day in and day out, month in and month out, she has been working on this budget and she has achieved, along with the committee, a smart…

Mr. President, this is a bipartisan amendment. This is about innovation and jobs. The medical device industry is one of our biggest exporters. We have so many opportunities out there with a growing middle class in China and India to export…

I wish to thank Senator Murray for her leadership on this budget. This is not an easy thing. We all know this. She actually has been working on this many years. I am very proud of this budget and the work which has been done here, the…

Mr. President, I thank Senator Murray for her great leadership. I also wish to thank Senator Enzi and Senator Durbin on the Marketplace Fairness Act. This is a bill and an amendment that needs to pass. It is incredibly important to small…

I thank Senator Franken for his strong words in support of this amendment. I thank him for being a cosponsor of this amendment. May I ask how much remains on the Joint Economic time? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 4 minutes remaining.

We are now talking about technology that obviously we have not talked about until now and we certainly would not have been talking about 10 years ago.

This technology is just going to exponentially get more sophisticated and probably smaller, don't you think?

I think that perhaps it is a matter of triage. If we want to avail ourselves of this technology, as many here agree we should, then perhaps we should have at least something in place so Americans feel more comfortable.

one of my big duties here in the Senate is to look out for people's privacy

Madam President, I rise today to discuss tribal school construction funding--an issue that is central to the academic wellbeing and intellectual development of tribal children across the country. It goes without saying that all kids need…

The continuing resolution we are now considering is needed to get us through the last 6 months of this fiscal year. It is my hope that as we return to a more regular appropriations process for fiscal year 2014, we can refocus on this…