Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to legislative session to be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy in allowing me to speak on this. I appreciate the leadership of Mr. Cohen. This is the culmination, hopefully, of years of struggle to try and end this barbaric practice. There are those who are…

Is she declaring a conflict of interest on this legislation? Tongue-in-cheek. Excuse me. We are all excited, awaiting the good news in terms of her family, and I think it is appropriate that we have this legislation on the floor today to…

I include in the Record an article titled, ``Lina Khan's Unfair and Deceptive Approach to Antitrust.'' [From U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 20, 2022] Lina Khan's Unfair and Deceptive Approach to Antitrust (By Sean Heather) In a recent…

I support title II of this bill, and, actually, I would vote for it if it was set up as a separate bill as it once was. I would not support title III. The real issue is title I and the $1.4 billion that it would provide to the Department…

Mr. President, I have come to the floor this afternoon to speak about Mike Evans, the Finance Committee's chief counsel, who is retiring at the end of this week. This is going to bring to a close 27 years of extraordinary Senate service…

Mr. President, I am on the floor this afternoon with a request to confirm a highly qualified nominee with bipartisan support, whose nomination has stalled for 210 days since it was approved by the Finance Committee. My understanding is…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). Without objection, it is so ordered. Nomination of Rebecca E. Jones Gaston

Mr. President, on behalf of myself and Mr. Wicker, I rise today to celebrate Emergency Nurses Week and all of the nurses throughout the country and around the world working day in and day out on the front lines to care for those in need…

Reserving the right to object, Madam President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The senior Senator from Oregon.

Madam President, I just went over to our colleague from Kansas and told him that I would much rather be on the floor this afternoon working in a bipartisan way on something like this, and I hope that can be part of Senate proceedings in…

He hasn't talked about it, but I think that would certainly be one of the questions our constituents would ask about, because this issue of there being a double standard between seniors at home and their elected officials would be very…

My colleague from Ohio is being way too logical because, you bet, what this essentially means is if you sunset it, the program and the benefits are not going to continue as they have. As you said, if people decide because of some…

Thank you very much, Senator Brown. And I see in the Chair another strong supporter of Social Security, the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts. And for colleagues who aren't aware, Senator Brown is our chair of the Subcommittee on…

You have stated it well. It would mean that when you sunset it, you would have to have a brand-new fight to reestablish its primacy as a guarantee. You sunset it.

Thank you. What Senator Brown has illustrated again is the differences between the two parties on Social Security and Medicare, and my colleague was kind enough to go back to my past as codirector of the Oregon Gray Panthers. Ever since…

I would be happy to and, particularly, so you can tell everybody again why you feel so strongly.

Yes. What ``sunset'' means is you would unravel the basic principles of Social Security and Medicare. We don't subject them to annual or regular political fights. We have said that people have earned those benefits, and we aren't just…