Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 258, which was received from the House. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2013; that following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…

I do not want anyone thinking I am not keeping my word. I was not going to say anything, but I thought I said I would get the last word. So Senator McConnell can say something now, and I will not get the last word. ____________________

Mr. President, notwithstanding the previous order with respect to S. Res. 65, I ask consent that the committee-reported amendment be agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:47 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 23, 2013…

Mr. President, I will be happy to respond to what the problem is. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

Senator Leahy said yesterday: A recent report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service compares the whole of President Obama's first term to the whole of President Bush's first term, and the contrast could not be more clear. The…

Mr. President, in school we studied a lot of things. But one of the things I cannot forget is George Orwell's ``1984.'' It was an interesting book because in that book he talked about people coming to a time when whatever they said was…

There will be two votes at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The first vote will be a cloture vote on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nomination, and the second vote will be on the Sanders amendment to the farm bill. We will continue to work through…

Mr. President, I rise to honor Adam Scott, a former member of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas golf team, and the first Australian to win the Masters Tournament. Through his determination and will to win, Adam was able to come back from…

Mr. President, everyone knows that numbers--we can show anything we want with numbers. The fact is there has been slow-walking done on the President's nominations, and we can look at how they do that. It has been interesting. It is a new…

We have to work together here, but it is mutual work, it is not all on one side. It is not my word versus somebody else's word. In 2005, we had a knockdown, drag-out battle here. My friend the Republican leader, along with others, gave…

Mr. President, this good man, Sri Srinivasan, was first nominated in June of 2012. He is a brilliant man. He is an honors graduate from Stanford Law School. Justice Roberts left that court in 2005. We have been trying to fill spots on that…

Mr. President, last night the Senate Judiciary Committee, after some 24 hearings and several weeks of markup, advanced a commonsense, bipartisan proposal to fix our broken immigration system. No one can dispute that it is broken. No one…

I object to any further proceedings to all three of these bills at this time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection is heard. The bills will be placed on the calendar under rule XIV. ____________________

Mr. President, there are three bills at the desk due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bills by title for the second time. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1003) to…

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Scotland is having a virtual revolt over obsolete wind turbines which are driving up energy costs and killing the bird population (and more)