Mr. President, Katherine Paterson is a treasure to Vermont. She is also a close friend to Marcelle and me. And today, at the age of 82, she continues to write with the grace and talent that has made her a two-time National Book Award…

Mr. President, obviously I am disappointed by tonight's vote, but I am not new to this fight. We have had six public hearings on this issue. We heard interesting testimony by the head of the NSA who talked about 50-some-odd terrorist…

I will not object to the request, and I will yield the remainder of my time to the Senator from Texas. I am sorry the Senator from Georgia would not offer me the courtesy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I will not object. I was going to yield the remainder of my time to the Senator from Texas, Mr. Cruz, and I ask unanimous consent that he be allowed up to 4 minutes.

Mr. President, this program does not gut it; it actually enhances it. Secondly, if this was important to stop ISIL, ISIL never would have started. The fact is that we had this program way beyond anything anybody is talking about today, and…

I thank the junior Senator from Utah who has worked so hard on this. It has been more than a year since Americans first learned that the government had been secretly sweeping up the telephone records of innocent Americans, regardless of…

We have confirmed three judges from Georgia and I want to compliment the two Senators from Georgia for their hard work, both in the Judiciary Committee and the White House. And in that, I am sorry they had to wait so long. On this side of…

Madam President, I yield my time to the two Senators from Georgia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia.

Would the Republican leader yield for a question? The minority leader will not yield for a question, but I would note, based on his concerns about the bipartisan piece of legislation regarding the NSA and others and his concern about…

I yield the floor, and I thank the distinguished Senator from California for giving me this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.

Mr. President, I know the distinguished Senator from Louisiana has the majority of votes in this body for the Keystone Pipeline, and that is a compliment to her hard work in getting from a minority of votes to a majority of votes. I will…

Madam President, I would ask for order. We still don't have order in the Chamber. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Order in the Senate, please. Senators, please take your conversations outside the Chamber. The Senator from Vermont.

Mr. President, Christ the King School of Burlington, VT, will soon celebrate its 75th anniversary, and it remains one of the most distinguished educational hubs in the Green Mountain State. Begun as a school to accommodate the overflow of…

With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case.

We've got to make high-quality pre-K available to every child so that they get the benefit of early enrichment and they come to school prepared.

So, what I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan comprehensive bill that…

I'm the president of the United States, I'm not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.

The notion that somehow by myself I can go and do these things is just not true.