Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum, but I will be responding. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, I have the greatest respect for the Senator from Hawaii. I know he cares deeply about this issue. But it is simply time for us to reform the Federal workers' compensation program for postal workers and for other Federal…

Mr. President, I rise today to speak in favor of Senate Joint Resolution 36, which would reject the National Labor Relations Board's, NLRB, rule on representation procedures, the so-called ``ambush election'' rule. I am pleased to be an…

Mr. President, I too wish to commend the Senator from Virginia for offering this amendment in conjunction with the Senator from Maryland. I wrote to OPM in July of last year about this very issue. I was very concerned about reports in my…

I thank the chairman. Mr. President, we are going to resume debate today on the postal reform legislation our committee, on which the Presiding Officer serves, has worked very hard to produce and to do so in a bipartisan way. As Chairman…

Mr. President, it pains me greatly to disagree with my friend and colleague from Tennessee, with whom I have a great friendship and great respect, but what he is essentially offering comes pretty close to a complete substitute for the…

Let us let these young people get right what their parents got wrong.

I hereby delegate to you the reporting functions conferred upon the President by section 8 of the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004.

The time to act is right now.

Higher education can't be a luxury.

The United States is proud of your heritage, and your contributions honor the memory of those who senselessly suffered and died nearly a century ago.

All those who are fighting must recognize that there is no military solution.

America is about everybody having the chance to do well. That's what the American Dream is all about.

The degree you earn from Colorado is going to be the best tool that you've got to achieve the American promise, by far.

I want this forever to be a country where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody is doing their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules.

In today's economy, there's no greater predictor of individual success than a good education.

The only way to achieve real and lasting security is to resolve your differences through negotiation.

We honor the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who were brutally massacred or marched to their deaths in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.