on Wednesday I traveled to Greene and Washington Counties in Upper East Tennessee--up near Virginia and North Carolina--to visit with the victims of tornadoes that swept across our State on April 27 and to see firsthand how the recovery is…

I will not object. I say to Senator Sessions, I think Senator Hatch is expected to come down. That is the only one I know of.

last month the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against the nation's largest exporter, the Boeing company--a company with 170,000-some employees, 150,000 of which in the United States…

I congratulate Senator Sessions and Senator Coburn for their principled remarks about the phenomenon of Washington spending. We are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. We cannot keep spending money we do not have. And we want to…

Senator Corker and I had the privilege of being in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Monday for the opening of Volkswagen's North American plant. It was a great day for our country. Here is a major global manufacturer making in the United States…

if you would let me know when 1 minute remains, I would appreciate it. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that morning business be extended until 9 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

we have been debating tax subsidies to the big oil companies. The bill proposed by the Senator from New Jersey would have limited it to just the big five oil companies even though many of the tax breaks or tax credits or deductions they…

I see the Senator from Kansas is here, and I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas.

I congratulate the Senator from Oklahoma for making an obvious and compelling point, which is that the problem is high gasoline prices. Why is the Democratic solution to raise them more? That is all their tax would do. The Republican plan…

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call time be equally divided. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record at the end of my remarks two articles by the Wall Street Journal, the first written by me on April 29 and the second written by the president of the Boeing Company, Jim McNerney, who is…