Mr. President, 20 years ago this month, a Republican President of the United States helped bring together all of the world's largest economies in Rio, in Brazil, to confront the issue of global climate change. The President was unequivocal…

I thank the Chair. So developing countries are going to face similar costs. According to a major international initiative on ``The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity'', developing countries will spend an estimated $70 to $100 billion…

Mr. President, I call up Senator McCain's and my amendment No. 2199. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kerry], for himself and Mr. McCain, proposes an…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that further reading be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and…

Mr. President, Senator McCain and I, along with a strong bipartisan group of our colleagues, are offering this amendment to repeal the 2008 farm bill's catfish language. Our amendment would repeal this language because it is unfair to…

Mr. President, this is an amendment on behalf of myself, Senator Murkowski, Senator Brown, and others. In these very difficult economic times, we have also had a problem for the fishermen of the Northeast and in other parts of the country…

Mr. President. Abraham Lincoln once spoke of our Nation as the last best hope on earth. On this World Refugee Day--the 11th of its kind and the 61st anniversary of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees--it is…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Foreign Relations I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Record on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time for debate this evening on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 37 be in order, even though the motion to proceed will not be made until Wednesday's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I further ask that the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, and that any statements relating to the measure be printed in the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Mr. President, I am going to make a unanimous consent request that Senator Carper open this debate--and I give thanks to Senator Inhofe for allowing that--for 8 minutes, and then Senator Inhofe will use 15 minutes at his discretion. Then…

Why not give us an exact time. I think it is important. So we are saying instead of 15 minutes of time--I would just say some of my people--can the Senator from Oklahoma take the first segment for 15 minutes--because I know Senator Shaheen…

OK. Then we will go to Senator Shaheen for 10 and back to Senator Inhofe for 18 minutes.

All right. Then the others will have 10 minutes apiece after that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Delaware.

Mr. President, there will be several rollcall votes beginning at approximately 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. The first vote will be on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 37, a resolution of disapproval regarding the EPA's mercury and air toxics…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration en bloc of the following resolutions which were submitted earlier today: S. Res. 496, S. Res. 497, S. Res. 498, and S. Res. 499. The PRESIDING…

Mr. President, I would like to take 3 minutes now, then yield up to 15 minutes to the Senator from New Jersey. I would then ask my friend, the Senator from Rhode Island--who is in the chair--to take up to 15 minutes, if he would like, and…

Mr. President, I just wish to say to my colleague Senator Inhofe before he leaves, that under this President we have seen more domestic energy production than we have seen probably in decades and decades--more domestic energy production…