OK. I would ask if I could have 2 minutes just to respond to my friend. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, we are going to divide time; are we not? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Yes. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I suggest the Senator…

Madam President, I ask that I be allowed to speak on the Democratic side's time for up to 5 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

But this treaty particularly has two components that those of us who support it believe are important for the country.

Mr. President, each year nearly 3 million youth receive mental health services to address a range of issues including depression, severe mental illness, and suicide prevention. When youth with mental health needs are treated early, with…

I cannot think of any time, certainly not since I have been here and I doubt even before that, that we have had so many top military leaders come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at one time.

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller), and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.

On June 15, 1982, 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe. In 1975, the State of Texas had passed a law that allowed public schools to refuse admission to children who were undocumented. The law…

I thank the Presiding Officer and my friend from Colorado. Mr. President, I rise to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Cybersecurity

While Stan was working with Congressman Skaggs, he also dealt with contentious issues related to Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons site in Colorado, and the other sites in the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex. Stan was…

Mr. President, as every one of our colleagues will attest, the work we do in this Chamber is made possible by many exceptional people who do not carry an election certificate. I am speaking of the dedicated staffers who work on committees…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska. (The remarks of Ms. Murkowski are printed in today's Record under ``Morning Business.'')

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Udall of Colorado are printed in today's Record under ``Morning…

Mr. President, earlier this week I came to the Senate floor to speak about the importance of the forestry title in what is a bipartisan farm bill we are considering right now as I speak. In my previous remarks, I spoke about a growing…

I thank Senator Conrad. He is always gracious and compelling, and I appreciate the strong case he made for his point of view. I rise as I did yesterday, and I will continue to do so, to highlight why it is so important that we extend the…

Mr. President, I rise to speak about the urgent need for the Senate to adopt cybersecurity legislation. I begin by recalling a recent story in the Washington Post that detailed how a young man living an ocean away from us was able to use…

The majority leader came to the floor yesterday, as I have said, echoing these sentiments in his floor speech, when he said: When virtually every intelligence expert says we need to secure the systems that make the lights come on, inaction…

It is not about second-guessing. It is about holding people responsible.

If we were to block grant Medicaid to the States, making them fully responsible--not taking away any of their dollars, making them fully responsible, take the Federal laws, let them do it, what we will see is some States very successful…