Mr. President, I thank the Senator. If the Chair would tell me when I have used 5 minutes and then I will conclude. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator will be notified.

Mr. President, I am very grateful to my colleague. I was happy to wait, but I am grateful to him. I thank the Senator from Montana, my friend Senator Baucus. I am privileged to work with a lot of extraordinary staff members here in the…

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

Mr. President, I wish to thank Senator Klobuchar for her leadership and Senator Feinstein as well. These are the two Democratic women on the Judiciary Committee who have been such leaders on this issue, as well as Senator Murray. I am…

Mr. President, there are a number of us who wish to speak. I will cede to the Senator from Montana, my senior. So if I could ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Montana speak, then the Senator from Massachusetts, and then--I think…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to give this speech in full. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Taxes Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the impending tax hike which, if allowed to…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my praise to one of Tennessee's true living legends. Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District, Coach Pat Head Summitt paved the way for women athletes at Cheatham…

Mr. President, after months of working to ensure that the subsidized student loan interest rate does not double this summer, I think we finally have reached a consensus--middle-income families in America cannot afford a huge increase, a…

Mr. President, I wish to speak in favor of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which I am proud to cosponsor. As attorney general of Rhode Island, I saw firsthand the good work that the Violence Against Women Act has done to…

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According to a recent survey, 24 people every minute become victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States. That means that just in the time it takes me to finish this statement, dozens will…

Mr. President, I rise to add my voice in support of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, of which I am proud to say I am a cosponsor. In Virginia, this act has doubled the resources available for prevention and…

We are deeply troubled by the claims of the CIA's former Deputy Director of Operations Jose Rodriguez regarding the effectiveness of the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques.

Mr. President, I rise today to express support for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act--VAWA. VAWA is a critical piece of legislation that protects American women from the plague of domestic violence, stalking, dating…

Statements made by Mr. Rodriguez and other former senior government officials about the role of the CIA interrogation program in locating Usama bin Laden (UBL) are inconsistent with CIA records.

Mr. President, I rise to speak on an amendment I have offered, and I ask unanimous consent at this time to call up amendment No. 2086 and ask for its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

I wish to talk about one aspect of Senator Hutchison's legislation that is also included in my stand-alone amendment. This is the administrative subpoena authority. Because this has been taken out of the Klobuchar alternative, it is not in…

Madam President, I have letters in support of the legislation we have talked about, the SAFER amendment, the alternative to the Klobuchar amendment, from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, from Arrow Child and Family…