Heidi Alexander: “Just before the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from…”

I ask unanimous consent that I be recognized to speak for as long as I may require. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I tried couch to 5k, and found it really difficult. But ask me to leave my car at home and cycle five or 10 minutes to the supermarket when I want to pick up some milk and a loaf of bread, that’s something that I could easily do.

in Jon Meacham's biography of President George W. Bush--actually, I believe it is in the biography of President George H. W. Bush--Meacham quotes Prescott Bush, H.W. Bush's father and Senator Prescott Bush, of Connecticut, as saying that…

This is a signal of the importance the government places on the need for expansion and will be an important additional factor in the planning balance.