Mr. President, I am proud to rise today in support of the bipartisan Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. I cosponsored the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) when it was originally enacted in 1994, and have cosponsored every…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to mark an amazing anniversary. And by amazing, I don't mean good. I mean unbelievable. I mean sad. On Sunday we will mark the anniversary--April 29--of the date where it has been 3 years since the…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak not to exceed 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I appreciate the gentleman from New York for yielding. As we talk about these issues--and I've been listening today as my colleagues have been discussing the tax policy--if you take a step back, if you look at all of the different rules…

We can ensure that the solutions reached are in line with compelling U.S. economic interests and job creation.

Without objection, all Members opening statements will appear in the record.

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The only way to completely eliminate the problems associated with that would be to prohibit it altogether.

The gentleman's time has expired.

This bill needs quite a bit of fixing up before we send it out of Committee, both in terms of policy as well as in terms of privacy protections.

Detective, your time has expired, could you wrap it up, please.

I do want to commend you, Madam Chairman, for the reforms that you have made in the money market funds, these reforms.

In a time when there's so much gridlock and partisanship, this is an issue that we have bipartisan support.

Well, I've heard of a lot of tragedies all over the world and in many places in Africa, Eastern Congo and Sudan and of course Darfur, but this was one of the worst in terms of brutality.

I thank the gentleman from Florida for the time. I rise today on behalf of the hardworking middle class families in Wisconsin and across the country who have unfairly been paying at a higher tax rate than multi-millionaires and…

We are not going to be able to do all the things the Congress has asked us to do and that the American people expect us to do.

I believe that the Attorney General and his staff have demonstrated and continue to demonstrate commendable responsibility in revealing the failures of the Department to meet its obligations in the Stevens case.

this budget request assumes $220 million in additional funding that theoretically would be used to implement to the Food Safety Modernization Act.