Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Thursday, June 20; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the…

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:22 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 10 a.m…

Madam President, I have seven requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate…

Mr. President, I move to concur in the House amendment to S. 870. ____________________

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Durbin), the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), and the Senator from Arizona (Ms. Sinema), are necessarily absent.

Mr. President, I rise today to express my deep disappointment of what I just heard, unfortunately, from my Senate colleague from Nebraska, Senator Pete Ricketts, who blocked Senator Heinrich's and mine and Senator Collins'…

Mr. President, we don't have to fight over everything here. It is OK if, occasionally, we find consensus around commonsense things that we could do together to keep our country safe. I kind of thought we had consensus on at least the idea…

Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which…

Mr. President, one of the most defining days for our country throughout our Nation's history was when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves. It marked the end of one of the most…

Mr. President, I want to commend my friends and colleagues from Mississippi and South Dakota and Oklahoma for their leadership in protecting the lives of the unborn and to thank them for bringing us together in this fight for life. Two…

Mr. President, 10 years ago, a wait-time scandal at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, led to a nationwide access and accountability crisis for the VA healthcare system. Many of us responded to that, worked to find a solution, and we…

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. President, my guess is, if I went to every person in this room--every page, every person sitting in the Gallery, every Senator--and I pointed to this image and said, ``What do you see there?'' my guess is every person in this room…

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. President, we will continue to be able to speak out. We do believe that is a child. We believe in the dignity of every human being. My wife, when we were pregnant--every single cell in her body--every cell--from her toenails and her…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to grant floor privileges to my interns for the following days--these are the days that they are having their shadow day where they accompany me around the Capitol--Mimi Papathanasopoulos on June…

Thank you, Chair Peters, and Ranking Member Paul for holding this hearing.

It should not matter where the funding comes from in terms of making sure this research is being done safely, securely, and responsibly.