Home health care is so important, and that's one place I think seniors and all of us can really pay attention to.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Let me first congratulate Chairman Harkin for his remarks today but more than that the work that has preceded today on the health care bill. He was an ardent advocate for the prevention programs that save lives and money. It was a real…

Mr. President, this is a critical moment. The Senate is on the verge of adopting legislation that could cost the American people dearly in the future. The House bill with respect to capital formation, which is labeled a jobs bill, but goes…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescind. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak up to 1 minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 1931

Madam President, shortly, we will be voting on my amendment, which will maintain the House's increase in the number of shareholders at 2,000 in order to remain private. But what I do is actually ensure that the shareholders are the real…

Madam President, the House bill has some very promising concepts about providing access to capital. What it fails to do is adequately protect investors. We have tried, through our alternative, to protect investors. That alternative has…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of the remarks of Senator Merkley and Senator Bennet, I be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 118 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the…

Mr. President, I rise, along with so many colleagues, to pay tribute to Senator Barbara Mikulski, an extraordinary woman and Senator, someone who has become the longest serving woman in the history of the Senate, indeed, in the history of…

Mr. President, I commend Senator Merkley and Senator Bennet for their extraordinary work, indeed, in collaboration I believe with our colleague Senator Brown from Massachusetts to make significant improvements in the crowdfunding…

I thank the Chair. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon. Amendment No. 1884

Mr. President, I am here today to introduce the DISCLOSE Act of 2012, and we are informally closing DISCLOSE 2.0 in recognition of the original bill that Senator Schumer worked so hard to get passed a few years ago. The Supreme Court's…

I do not believe we are creating a lot of pollution out of Rhode Island that the rest of the country has to worry about.

It is very important to Rhode Island as a downwind State to have clean air for our citizens.

But in the downwind States and among the general American population, we are in accord with you.

We are a downwind State. On a bright summer day you drive into work, and the drive time radio is often saying that today is a bad air day.