Mr. President, I appreciate the kind, heartfelt words of the distinguished majority leader when speaking about Tommy Boggs-- Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. Many of us knew him well. I was at Georgetown law school with Tommy, and we often talked…

You need to have an infrastructure to be able to respond.

Well, there is the Senate. There they go again. Whenever we women fight for fair pay, we are either sidelined, redlined, or pushed aside. We, moving for paycheck fairness, feel the way women feel every single day in the workplace. When…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Paycheck Fairness

I'm looking ahead to December 11th and also the 2016 fiscal year.

It's our job to get OMB to give you the latitude to come back because of this new need.

May I ask a question? Has the Senate returned to legislative session? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are in executive session postcloture on the Burns nomination.

ISIS has terrorized the Iraqi and Syrian people, engaging in kidnappings, killings, persecutions of religious minorities, and attacking schools, hospitals, and cultural sites.

Our military leaders and intelligence experts uniformly say that airstrikes alone will not be sufficient to defeat ISIS.

The participation of key Arab states in the region will be critical to the effectiveness of any international coalition.

That is stunning. It has not been reauthorized, CHIP. It is still out there, floating.

I am interested in the children who still have to be reached out to, in the Alabamas and West Virginias and Pennsylvanias and Ohios, et cetera.

If we keep the Senate, if we do not keep the Senate, that will have its affect.

If funding is not continued for CHIP, it is going to be a nightmare.

I am here to ask you to extend CHIP funding beyond fiscal year 2015.

You could see it, but you could not do anything about it.

one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.

Having health insurance is a fabulous thing. So is having an education.