Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation.

Mr. President, yesterday we and the nation heard from Goldman Sachs executives indicating they had no regrets about the financial crisis, a crisis that has left 8.5 million people without jobs and stripped billions of dollars of retirement…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding, and I want to echo the concerns and the words of my colleagues who have spoken on this issue of financial reform and the outrageous financial business practices that have been taking place on Wall…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 501, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as…

I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 498) was agreed to…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 498. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the…

Under a previous order, at 12:20 p.m. tomorrow, there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to consider the Wall Street reform bill. ____________________

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:11 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at…

Mr. President, I am here because for the second day in a row the Republican minority has once again sided with the Wall Street bankers and taken their side in the battle the American people want us to have to clean up Wall Street and see…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 28; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed…

I thank the majority leader for his steady and strong leadership through these times. I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING…

I look forward to working with you on it, and the statistic that I have heard is that 80 percent of the cyber attacks that America sustains that succeed could be blocked if people simply took very basic, very common, standard preventive…

Fish passages, eel grass beds, those sorts of things that are really tangible make a significant difference.

Mr. President, we are now, for those who are tuning in, in a situation in which the Republicans who filibustered probably about 100 times in this session, are now filibustering not a piece of legislation, they are filibustering the…

Restoring the rivers is a real priority, and things like fish ladders are very important.

That is quite a concern.