Mr. President, I rise today in support of energy innovation, energy independence, national security, and local economies. The legislation I am introducing, the Biomass Thermal Utilization Act of 2013--known as the BTU Act--would give tax…

I rise to urge my colleagues to reject this rule and reject H.R. 3. We've already seen the impact of tar sands oil in my district. Piles of petroleum coke three stories tall and a city block wide are sitting on the banks of the Detroit…

Mr. President, let me begin by congratulating Senators Stabenow and Cochran for their hard work on this very important piece of legislation, especially for rural States such as Vermont, but I guess for everybody who eats, which is the…

Mr. President I call up amendment No. 965 and ask for its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], for…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other…

Mr. President, I will be very brief, as I spoke on this issue before. Here is the story, using my own State of Vermont as an example, but it exists all over the country. This year the Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill by a…

Mr. President, I want to discuss my amendment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's release of farmers' information. By now, many of my colleagues have heard about the Environmental Protection Agency's release of individual…

As I mentioned earlier, this is the final budget hearing, and I appreciate the work that everyone at USDA and FDA...

What caused the change, three things. One, simply the tough budget environment that we all find ourselves in.

Mr. President, this amendment is being portrayed as a reform of sugar policy, but it is far more harmful than that. These proposed changes would undermine the policy of our domestic industry by transferring American sugar-producing jobs to…

There's actually broad support for these in Congress.

To me, what I'm seeing in the administration's proposal, it kind of falls into the category of those who need it the most can afford it the least.

Let me say I have some concerns about that.

Mr. President, today I pay tribute to the men and women of our Armed Forces who have given their lives in defense of the United States. Memorial Day has, since its inception in the years immediately after the end of the Civil War, been a…

I know what you've gone through with sequestration so far and my guess is you've hit a lot of low-hanging fruit.

The subcommittee's next markup--meeting will be a markup of the fiscal year 2014 bill and that date has not yet been determined.

I hear a lot of concern from the Arkansas electric coops.

The testimony presented during these hearings was very helpful and that constant flow of information back and forth has been very good...