I would agree with that. And we could get into a lively dispute among us about who shot John and who scratched whose back and whose fault it all is, whether the Democrats, who in 2003 began for the first time to require 60 votes for…

I ask unanimous consent that following my remarks, the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Coons, be recognized. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

Prior to doing that, I want to join Senator Portman in acknowledging the leadership of Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, along with the conservation community, in developing the bones of this bill. We had competing bills; he and Senator…

I thank the Senator from Maine and the Senator from Ohio. I often say to my constituents in Tennessee that they might look at Washington, DC, as if it were a split-screen television. On one side, for example, we had in September all the…

I thank my colleagues. I will conclude the colloquy, if that is all right with Senator King and Senator Portman, and then I ask unanimous consent for 10 minutes to speak about Senator Hatch. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

before the Senator from Maine speaks, I thank the Senator from Ohio for his generous comments. I defer to the Senator from Maine.

in 1976, it was not a particularly good time in the Republican Party. Watergate had decimated the Republican Party in 1974, and the hangover still existed in 1976. But one good thing that happened was the election of Orrin Hatch from Utah…

today I am asking experts at the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institute, as well as other leading experts, for specific ideas about how Congress and the President can work together to reduce the cost of healthcare in the…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 30 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

along with my colleague, the ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senator Murray, I wish to pay tribute to Carolyn Bolden, a nondesignated employee on the HELP Committee staff. Ms. Bolden is retiring at…

there is uncertainty reported in the news about the trade agreements and discussions that the President of the United States and the President of China had last weekend, but one thing is certain: The agreement that President Trump and the…

let me begin where the majority leader stopped. It is a true story about the tunnels. Senator Corker was curious about smuggling supplies from Egypt to Gaza. Others of us might have asked somebody about that--not Bob Corker. He hailed a…