Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Illinois for his usual articulate and prescient comments about our judicial crisis, and that is what we have here in the Senate and in the third branch of government. I rise today, along with many…

Mr. President. I rise today in strong support of the historic confirmation of Margo K. Brodie to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Frankly, at this point, all of our nominees deserve special attention…

Mr. President, I wish to thank my colleagues from California, New York, New Hampshire, and Washington State for the great job they have done. Before I speak about our judicial nominee, I wish to say I join them in their remarks and their…

Mr. President, I rise in support of Jesse Furman, who is a nominee for the District Court in the Southern District. I have had the good fortune to present to the President more than 13 nominees for the Federal bench, every one of them is…

Mr. President, I thank the chairman and the Judiciary Committee for reporting Jesse Furman out without dissent. Furman is a truly excellent figure. He clerked for the Supreme Court, has the support of all the clerks with whom he served…

I thank my good friend from Florida (Mr. Hastings). Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the legislation being considered today; however, I really just need to say this is not the agreement I would have written. I recognize the importance…

Mr. President, I would like to offer my support for the confirmation of a highly qualified and accomplished New Yorker, Jesse Furman who has been nominated by President Obama to serve the United States District Court for the Southern…

Mr. President, I have said it time and time again all across New York State at event after event: We need more women's voices in our decisionmaking process. We need more women at the table in government and in business. When women are at…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I may consume 3 minutes and my colleague from California may also consume 3 minutes before we move on to the next matter. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I commend my colleagues for reaching an agreement on a longer term extension of the payroll tax cut. While this bill is not perfect, it does provide the average American middle-class family with an additional $1,000 over the year through…

From Buffalo to Rochester, New York, people in my district want to get back to work. They just need the opportunity. That's why during budget hearings yesterday with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, I posed…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from New York.

Mr. President, today I rise to join my colleagues, Senator Klobuchar and Senator Grassley, to discuss an epidemic overtaking our country: synthetic drugs. I wish to compliment both of my colleagues. Each of us has been working on this…

Sure. Absolutely. I think beyond the innovation and the ideas that translate into jobs, research equaling jobs, there are these benefits of connecting us as a Nation. We are a large Nation geographically, and the interconnecting that can…

Representative Garamendi, thank you for that lead-in. Certainly Representative Altmire talked about the need for us to invest in manufacturing, when you look at that precipitous drop, losing the many millions of manufacturing jobs, perhaps…

Sure. Absolutely. Representative Garamendi, thank you for bringing us together for an hour of thoughtful discussion, dialogue that needs to be exchanged here on the House floor so as to promote what I believe is a very progressive agenda…

It's a valid point. Where was that linear, where was that outreach, that extension into all of America with the good products we developed that would serve this Nation well? So what we're talking about now is bringing back some programs…

I think before we leave this talk of manufacturing growth, both of you gentlemen held up tremendous charts that tell the story. What I think is interesting is, when you overlay those two charts with the deficit--the trade deficit and the…