tonight the Senator from Maryland, Mr. Cardin, and I and a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, have submitted a resolution reaffirming the strong alliance between the United States and Australia. I wish to speak about that for a few…

will you please let me know when 4 minutes has expired and then when 5 minutes has expired, and then I will allocate to the Senator from South Carolina the last 2\1/2\ minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will so advise.

was there not enough time to question her? I wonder. We treated her just like we did President Obama's Education Secretaries. She offered to meet with the Democrats in December. They refused. She finally met with them in their offices…

I urge a ``yes'' vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

Thank you, Mr. President. She has led the most effective public school reform movement over the last 30 years and she has a commitment to help low-income children. I would say to my Democratic colleagues, we confirmed President Obama's…

I am voting for Betsy DeVos because she will implement our law fixing No Child Left Behind the way we wrote it--to reverse the trend to a national school board and restore control to classroom teachers, to local school boards, to…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Wisconsin.

with this vote, the Senate will move early next week to confirm the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be the U.S. Education Secretary. In my judgment, she will be an excellent and important Education Secretary for this country. The No. 1 job of…

I ask unanimous consent to have the subcommittee assignments for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows…

I ask unanimous consent to have the committee rules for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: SENATE…

I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Hampshire.

I come to the floor to thank the Senator from Alaska and the Senator from Maine for this reason: They are following a long and venerable tradition in the United States Senate that too many Senators do not follow. They are allowing--despite…