Heidi Alexander

If you would let me know when 1 minute remains, I would appreciate it. ____________________

I will not object. I say to Senator Sessions, I think Senator Hatch is expected to come down. That is the only one I know of.

I see the Senator from Kansas is here, and I yield the floor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas.

I will take 1 minute and then conclude. I wish to thank Senators Portman, Cornyn, and Barrasso for this. We will be hearing often from Republicans who want to make clear what we are for as well as what we are against, and I thank the…

To the Chair, if the 5-minute warning could be for the end of the 25 minutes because I intend to take 5 minutes after that. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is 6 minutes remaining in total on the Republican side.

Would the Senator have some more comments on the plan and about what has been said by some of our other colleagues?

Reserving the right to object, then we would need to add 2 minutes to the Republican side, and I ask unanimous consent for that. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would like to congratulate the men and women of our military for a courageous mission, and our intelligence community for accurate and important intelligence. I would like to congratulate the President for his persistence in bringing a…

In closing, a key component of this spending agreement is a guaranteed up-or-down vote in the Senate on a provision that would prohibit any funds in this act or any previous act from being used to carry out the Patient Protection and…

No. Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman).

One more time, the bottom line of this proposal by Senator Bennet and myself is that every minute a teacher spends on an unneeded test or regulation is a minute the teacher cannot devote to teaching a child. What we are asking the teachers…

With Senator Johanns' leadership and others, we will work to repeal the 1099 provision. Senator Hatch and others are working to give Governors more flexibility in the Medicaid Program. And we will continue to advocate solutions such as…

I join Senator McConnell in welcoming Reverend Austin from Murfreesboro, TN, just down the road from Nashville. He formerly worked here, as Senator McConnell said. We are delighted he has this privilege today to pray at the beginning of…

In his last appearance before the Rules Committee, Senator Byrd quoted James Madison's description of this body as a necessary fence against rulers and transient impressions and said the right to filibuster anchors this necessary fence and…

This amendment might be called the ``if you are going to hang me later, hang me now'' amendment. This would eliminate the filibuster by making certain that it only took 51 votes, eventually, to pass a bill. This filibuster, according to…

Before we change the rules, use the rules. We talk about Senator Byrd a lot because he understood the rules so well. I have often told the story of when Senator Baker became the Republican majority leader in 1981. He went to see Senator…

I thank the Senator. No one is doubting the President's commitment. He has made an extraordinary commitment. I congratulate him for that. It is just the suggestion of doing it a little differently, if the President thinks it is practical…

I will vote to ratify the New START treaty between the United States and Russia because it leaves our country with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to kingdom come and because the President has committed to an $85 billion…

We are in the middle of a very severe economic recession. We have had more than 9.5 percent unemployment for 16 out of the last 17 months. We have only had 30 months in modern history where we have had unemployment that high. Almost half…

I was delighted to see the President invite the leaders down to the White House for such a good meeting. I know they have had some joint meetings before, but we are never going to get anywhere in the Senate where we have a relatively equal…

But he did say very clearly that given the length and severity of the economic downturn, that the logical thing to do would be to keep the current rates exactly where they are for at least 2 years because not to do so would clearly cause…

The idea is that you don't raise taxes in the middle of an economic downturn because it makes it harder to create jobs. And that raising those taxes now makes no sense.

The voices of the people are to be heard here. They can only be heard and their liberties protected if their elected officials have the right to express those voices through unlimited amendment and unlimited debate. When the majority…

This is a year above all years when there are voices in the country that seek to be heard. When through procedural means the majority suppresses those voices by suppressing their elected representatives, it only adds fuel to the fire…

The Senator from Utah has had a distinguished career in the Senate. His father did before him. He has an unusual perspective of this body. I wonder what his reflections might be upon Senator Byrd's thought about the importance of allowing…