Mr. President, today, Senator Brown and I are introducing important legislation to extend tax relief to working families: The Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2013. This legislation will ensure that taxes do not increase on working…

Madam President, I respect my colleagues from Oregon and Montana, but I respectfully disagree with the way they have described the situation. We are talking about asking Internet retailers around America, when they make a sale, to collect…

Without objection, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Kentucky. Neurofibromatosis 2

Madam President, let me first thank my colleague from Massachusetts for an excellent statement in support of the legislation pending on the floor. Let me remind my colleagues that I am planning to make a unanimous consent request on…

Reserving the right to object, this is the first time I have seen this list. It has 17 Republican amendments on it. An hour apiece with a vote would probably take us around the clock or close to it. I wish to review this list with the…

Madam President, my friend and colleague from Utah Senator Hatch is going to give a speech in a moment. I would like to say before he speaks that after he has spoken, I am going to ask for a unanimous consent which renews an earlier…

I am not much of a gambler myself. I make a voluntary tax payment every once in a while and buy a lottery ticket, although I realize I will never win. Refresh my memory--and the Senator probably knows this--do I recall that the only…

I would like to say I would vote for that in a second and I am not ruling out the possibility of agreeing to allow the Senator to offer this as an amendment to the bill. Please let us see if it raises a blue slip issue, which we mentioned…

Whatever way the Senator from Oklahoma wishes to explain it. I will object at this point. I am sorry, I understand that can't be done.

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, I appreciate I have to object, but I want the Senator from Oklahoma to please explain the amendment.

Just to restate, we are going through--I think the Senator has six or eight amendments. We are going through those in a good-faith effort to find those which would complement what we are doing and not create a problem substantively. My…

The Senator from Oklahoma is my friend, and we have worked together on many occasions. I wish to state for the Record, because he knows it and I wish to put it on the Record, that we have what is called a blue-slip problem. There are no…

Madam President, I have reached out during the statement of the Senator from Kentucky to try and find the Senator from New Hampshire. I know she has a busy schedule, and I couldn't find her to ask her for her amendments to include on this…

Mr. President, pending on the floor is S. 743. This is a bill which, in its simplest terms, will allow the States to ask Internet retailers, when they sell in the State, to collect sales tax. Currently, every State requires consumers to…

We just had a young person who went to Russia and Chechnya who blew people up in Boston. So he didn't stay where he went, but he learned something where he went and he came back with a willingness to kill people.

Managing that amount of land often, nearly always, requires Federal legislation, even for many parochial issues.

The Ute tribe supports this legislation because it will help the tribe develop its mineral resources while also preserving lands of significant cultural value.

The Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and Energy Development Act will resolve a long standing land ownership problem in Eastern Utah.