I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent.

I rise this evening in commemoration of Black History Month as we celebrate and honor the tremendous achievements of African Americans. At no time in history has there been a greater need to rethink the role of government given the current…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor on this bill. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Madam President, I have spoken to the Senators from Missouri and Alabama, and I ask unanimous consent that following the remarks of the Senator from Missouri I be recognized for 10 minutes, and then following that, Senator Sessions be…

Mr. President, I wish to make a unanimous consent request: that on the Democratic side, the sequence be Senator Kaufman of Delaware, Senator Harkin from Iowa, and then that I be third in line; and then if there are any Republicans who come…

Sure. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Delaware is recognized. ____________________

Madam President, it is so interesting to notice the change of approach. When President Bush was in office and we were fighting terrorism, Democrats would come to the floor and question interrogation and prosecution and be reminded over and…

Madam President, I wish to say one last word about an issue that affects my State and many others too. We received news today that the foreclosures of houses in Illinois have increased dramatically over last year--a 25-percent increase in…

Madam President, I first came here as a student in 1963. It is a great city. I went to college here, law school here. I lived a big part of my life, at least part time, in Washington, DC. I never could get over how people in this town…

Mr. President, in 2003 I joined my friend, then-Senator Mike DeWine, in visiting Haiti. While no longer in the Senate, Mike remains a tireless advocate for Haiti. Also joining us were Senator Bill Nelson and Representative Kendrick Meek…

I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor), and the Senator…

Mr. President, if you take a look at the history of this great Nation, at least in my lifetime, you cannot miss what happened to America immediately after World War II. Veterans came back from that war, thousands of them, and they were…

I would tell the Senator I am not 100 percent pure. I have held up a nomination in the past, but I always state my purpose. The two I can recall immediately were to get agencies to do things they said they would have done long before and…

Mr. President, in my era in politics, one of the most frightening things you could ever hear when you were about to go into an event was when the host of that event called you to the side and said: You will be speaking following Ted…

Mr. President, I know my colleague from Vermont is going to take the floor, but I would ask for his indulgence. I ask unanimous consent to be recognized for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

For the Department of Defense. If I remember correctly, this gentleman has served 33 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, was a major general, and he was the first African-American regimental commander in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps…

I thank the gentleman. The scene and the content of this debate is really like a bad movie in a lot of ways. You rewind the tape and we have ultimately had this conversation about a year ago when the Democratic majority, Madam Speaker…