at this point, I hope I can appeal to my friend from Oklahoma. It is important to every single State, but it is certainly important to my State of Illinois where we have thousands of researchers and millions of dollars being spent. But it…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Ex.] YEAS--52 Banks Barrasso…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 117 Ex.] YEAS--53 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy…

my friend and colleague from Wyoming mentioned the New York Times this morning and reports, articles, on the economy, and so I took a quick look to see if I could find the column that he was referring to, though I couldn't find it, I did…

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. 994 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

for the second time over the past few weeks, I have come to the Senate floor to talk about the importance of medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health--NIH. Last week during his address to Congress, President Trump…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 119 Ex.] YEAS--53 Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 118 Ex.] YEAS--53 Banks Barrasso…

I thank Representative Stansbury for speaking today and for sharing how some of Trump's policies are going to harm her constituents. In her State and near her district are national security workers, atomic scientists at Sandia and Los…

look forward, not backward.

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 78, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.] YEAS--78 Baldwin Banks…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 77, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 114 Ex.] YEAS--77 Alsobrooks Baldwin…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mrs. Duckworth) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent. The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 112 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. Slotkin) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 46, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 113 Ex.] YEAS--51 Banks Barrasso…

Detaining a recent grad student for exercising his right to free speech is something we’d expect from Russia—NOT AMERICA.

today stands out as a critical moment for the country, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution. In recent weeks, Trump administration officials and allies have made statements and engaged in troubling conduct that threatened judicial…

There is a national shortage of more than 7 million units of affordable housing across America and more than 771,000 people experiencing homelessness. This CR does nothing to lower the cost of housing. That is what I was going to talk…

This is about the rule so that we can get to this continuing resolution or so-called continuing resolution. Mr. Speaker, let me tell you what continuing resolutions are. They give Congress time to negotiate budget bills in the interest of…