Thank you for the work you are doing.

The DOE received $5.1 billion for Defense Environmental Cleanup through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

I think that further delay to the Ohio replacement, for example, will jeopardize our collateral work with the U.K., for example, and I think that would be a mistake.

Thank you for your great service to our country.

Mr. President, I rise today to join my fellow Senator from Rhode Island's effort to restore a basic level of fairness to our Tax Code. Senator Whitehouse has done an extraordinary job in fighting to return some sense of balance to a broken…

On April 13, the President issued an Executive order to align all current and future research which, again, I think we all say is absolutely necessary for the protection of the public, made up of 13 Federal agencies.

Mr. President, I rise today, along with my colleague from Rhode Island, to pay tribute to SGT Dennis Weichel, a Rhode Islander who served in the Rhode Island National Guard. On March 22, Sergeant Weichel was in a convoy with his unit in…

Mr. President, today I introduce, along with my colleague, Senator Stabenow, the Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act. According to the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island, 38,000 adults and 11,000 children…

Mr. President, it is with great sadness but also considerable pride that I join Senator Reed today to honor the service of SGT Dennis P. Weichel, Jr., of the Rhode Island National Guard, who died 1 week ago today while serving our country…

Mr. President, I would like to join my colleagues in trying to find a way to attach the Senate bill which passed this body better than 3 to 1, with a huge bipartisan majority, which is a good bill. It was paid for and had weeks of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak until I get a signal from the majority leader that he will seek recognition, at which point I will yield the floor. I wished to follow in the footsteps of Senator Landrieu of Louisiana and…

Mr. President, I see the Republican leader is on the floor, and I understand there may be a unanimous consent that is propounded, and I can offer some remarks in the context of an objection and a counterproposal, if the minority leader…

Setting aside the questions that this raises about the House's ability to govern, which I think are raised by this issue but focusing on this highway question, it is now the end of March. If we go 90 days, 30 days takes us through the end…

I wonder if the Senator would yield for a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

Madam President, I rise today to talk about the changes the affordable care act is making to the way care is delivered in our health care system. This is a topic that has not received much public attention. Instead, the public debate has…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

Mr. President, I wish to take some time this evening to congratulate our Environmental Protection Agency and to thank them for the rule they proposed this week regarding new coal-fired powerplants. They have taken a certain amount of heat…

Mr. President, I am informed that the first vote tomorrow will be at approximately 11:30 in the morning on the motion to invoke cloture on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. The Transportation bill expires at the end of the month. That…