We have a vacancy at the Food and Drug Administration. So what if someone said: Wouldn't it be a good idea to go see if we can recruit the chief medical officer at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of the most distinguished…

every year, Americans make nearly 3 billion trips to the drugstore, pharmacies, convenience stores to pick up over-the-counter products such as allergy medicines, children's cough syrup, or simple pain medicines such as aspirin. As the…

today, the Senate passed a solution that Senator Murray and I reached to permanently fund historically Black colleges and universities and other minority serving institutions. It is hard to think of a piece of legislation that would have…

on behalf of all of us, I want to thank the Democratic leader for his courtesy and his support on this. He and Senator McConnell have made it possible for us to do this. I am going to limit my remarks to a couple of minutes, and then…

I wanted to take a moment to recognize Mr. Rogers, who is being celebrated with the release of a new movie starring Tom Hanks and a new album recorded largely in Nashville that features new renditions of the songs we loved hearing Mr…

I will bet Senator Isakson is a little bit surprised that his farewell address would produce such an eruption of bipartisan speeches, both in the luncheon we just had for nearly 100 Senators--almost everybody was there, Democrats and…

within a few minutes, we will be voting on the President's nomination for the new U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette. I am here to offer my support for Mr. Brouillette, and I hope my colleagues will vote for him. I am confident…

I ask unanimous consent to start the vote at this time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the…

reserving the right to object--and I will object--I am disappointed that my colleagues are offering such a short-term, piecemeal approach toward resolving the problems of our historically Black colleges and minority-serving institutions…

I see the Senator from Maryland, but I would like to take a few minutes to describe the proposal to which Senator Brown just objected. I appreciate the Senator from Ohio in his saying that he hopes that Senator Murray and I can do what we…

What I will do is make my offer quickly, and then I will make my speech following the objection. Let me summarize, to begin with, that what has just happened is I have objected to a short-term, piecemeal extension of funding for…

I see the Senator from Ohio. I intend to offer my alternative to which, I gather, someone plans to object. I will go ahead and do that unless he wants to speak at this point.