Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security, be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 24, 2012, at 10 a.m., in room SD G50 of…

Mr. President, there are just a couple of things I wish to bring up in response to some of the statements that have been made on the floor. First of all, I wish to make it very clear that the NLRB has scrupulously followed all legal and…

Mr. President, I yield myself such time as I may consume. For more than 1 year, I have been working on a series of hearings, both in Washington, DC, and in Iowa, focusing on the state of the American middle class. We have learned that the…

Mr. President, how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa has 20 minutes, and the Senator from Wyoming has 12 minutes.

Mr. President, a couple things. I keep hearing it stated that: ambush elections. I want to point out, there is no timetable set in these rules--none whatsoever. I keep hearing: 10 days and 7 days and all that. That is not set. There are no…

Mr. President, I yield whatever time he may consume to my good friend the Senator from Connecticut.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 24, 2012, at 10 a.m., to hold an African Affairs subcommittee hearing entitled, ``U.S. Policy to…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife of the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 24, 2012, at 10:15 a.m. in room SD 406 of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 24, 2012, at 10 a.m., in room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 24, 2012, at 10 a.m. to conduct a committee hearing entitled ``The Collapse of…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Paul Edenfield a member of my staff, be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, at 10 a.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office…

Mr. President, how much time is remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 5 minutes for the majority and 3 minutes for the minority.

Mr. President, I will, obviously, yield to my good friend, Senator Enzi, for his closing remarks, but I again just want to point out that this ruling by the NLRB is imminently reasonable. They went through rulemaking, as I have said…

Mr. President, over the past 2 days my Republican colleagues have raised several arguments about what the NLRB rule will do. I now want to respond to their points and to clarify once again: this is a modest rule that simplifies preelection…

Mr. President, I want to draw the Senate's attention to the ongoing, intensifying and intolerable oppression occurring in Tibet. Over the past year, at least 32 Tibetans, most of them young men and women, have set themselves on fire to…

I think reports from the Government Accountability Office, GAO, validate that, and I hope that we can make some progress on it.

I am uneasy about it. It seems to me that the State was targeted because their law was not popular with the Department, with the President.