I thank the Chair. So I would say to my friends on the other side, if you want to have a say about nuclear waste, about nuclear defense, about National Laboratories, about flood control, about waterways, and about locks and dams, then vote…

I thank the Chair. I will conclude within the next 3 minutes, and I thank my Democratic friends for their courtesy. In the last Congress, when Democrats had the majority and Republicans had the minority, the Committee on Appropriations…

tomorrow we will be voting on the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill. I come to the floor to make two points about that very important legislation. No. 1: if our Democratic friends would allow us to vote on it, allow us to…

I thank the Democratic Senators for their courtesy. We are running a little behind, and they have allowed me to go on and make my remarks. I ask the Chair to let me know when 12 minutes have expired of my 15 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I wish to join the majority leader in complimenting Senator Scott, a new Member of the Senate, on a significant accomplishment. It is not that easy to pass a bill in the House and in the Senate. It takes a lot of work, and there is good…

the Senator from New Hampshire is always eloquent as she is fighting for students in New Hampshire. I want to assure her and any of those 5,000 New Hampshire students who already have a Perkins loan are not affected by this. In fact…

the goal here is to help students. The goal here is to find ways to help college students find easier ways to apply to a college and to avoid overborrowing. The goal would be to give them a year-round Pell grant. The goal would be to…

Reserving the right to object, rather than making a statement, I hope it will be suitable to the Senator from Wisconsin for me to make my explanation of why I am objecting after I object. And I will object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection…

I salute Senator Daines. Since his arrival in the Senate, he has been a strong fighter for the great American outdoors, which he enjoys so much in the beautiful State of Montana. He and I were talking not long ago about his next hunting…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet during the session of the Senate on October 6, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room SD- 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet during the session of the Senate on October 1, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room SD- 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…

during the last several days several Republicans have suggested that the Senate should abandon a tradition that has existed in this body since Thomas Jefferson wrote the rules of the Senate in 1789. It is the tradition of extended…