I thank the gentleman for yielding. A couple of months ago I'm walking through a manufacturing facility in the western suburbs of Chicago with the entrepreneur that started it. This is a guy who about 45 years ago is living on the…

It wasn't many years ago that coal miners relied on a small bird, a canary, to signal that conditions were toxic. The canary in the coal mine would become sick before the miners, who would then have a chance to either escape or to put on…

Mr. President, today, with the passage of the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act, the Senate takes a step toward ending child marriage. Child marriage is often carried out through force or coercion. It deprives…

Mr. President, next year marks the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosis by the Centers for Disease Control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS. This year, 33.3 million people are living with HIV. Last year 2.6 million people…

Mr. President, I wanted to give my friend from Tennessee time to make his objection in its entirety. I thank him for that. I am glad he clarified the fact that we could bring the START treaty to the floor. I sincerely hope we do. I think…

Mr. President, I thank my colleague from New York and my colleague from Missouri who was here a moment ago and all those who came to the floor to talk. I assume my colleagues are aware of the fact that all across America there have been…

Mr. President, in the absence of Senator Inouye, I ask unanimous consent to speak on his behalf for the 1 minute allocated. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Motions to Suspend

So while the bill does provide for certain exemptions from FDA authority for small farms and food processing facilities, these exemptions are based only on the specific provisions added by S. 510; they do not prevent FDA from taking…

Mr. President, I wish to join with my colleagues in saluting the departure of one of our best, Senator Chris Dodd. I first saw his father, though I did not meet him, when I was a student intern for Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois, who had…

Madam President, every once in a while, Congress is faced with a policy choice that clearly defines for the American people exactly who each member is fighting for. We are nearing one of those clarifying moments here on the Senate floor…

Mr. President, I am going to vote today against the Coburn effort to change our rules relative to earmark legislation. I wish to tell you, as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, we have put in place what I consider to be the…

Will the distinguished floor manager for this bill yield in order to enter into a colloquy to clarify the meaning of certain provisions in the legislation?

I thank the Senator for his time and his leadership on this issue. I am happy to join him. I want to make sure we put this into the context of the lameduck session. This is a session when we are debating tax cuts, and the position held by…

Mr. President, I wanted to clarify an important part of this bill. While this bill does grant FDA many new authorities, the savings clauses in this bill--in particular, sections 403(3), 418(1)(3)(B), and 41900(3)(B)--preserve all of FDA's…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 3992 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.

I do not object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motions to suspend are pending rather than the amendments themselves. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Oklahoma has the floor.

So it is my understanding the votes will still be tomorrow on the two issues the Senator has pending?