If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. Thereupon, the Senate, at 7:46 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 10 a.m…

There appears to be no one on the floor who wants to speak. I could go another 4 or 5 hours if the Senate would like to stay in session. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn…

Thank you. This is a FAFSA. You may say that nobody knows what that is. Well, 20 million American families know what this is because 20 million American families fill this out every single year. If you want a Federal loan to help you go to…

a college graduate who pays more than $1,000 a month on student loans recently wrote the New York Times, ``I was told to chase down a bachelor's degree by any means necessary. But no one mentions just how expensive and soul-crushing the…

late in December, I announced that I would not be a candidate for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2020, and that prompted this cartoon in the Knoxville News Sentinel by Charlie Daniel: He says his name is Alexander. He says he is going to…

I am glad the Senator from West Virginia is on the floor because if someone were to ask where do we go from here, her work is the best example of that. Let's stop and think about this just a minute. The issue is whether we should include…

Could the Presiding Officer let me know when 60 seconds is up so the Senator from Alaska can have 60 seconds? And then we can go on with the colloquy people have been waiting for. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without…

this is what we just heard. The Senator from Wisconsin asked unanimous consent that the Senate approve pay for 400,000 workers who are being forced to work without pay. No Republican objects to the Senator from Wisconsin's idea, but the…

in accordance with rule XXVI.2 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I submit for publication in the Congressional Record the rules of procedure for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, as unanimously adopted by the…

I ask unanimous consent that following my remarks, the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Coons, be recognized. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank Senator Corker, Senator Flake, and the leaders, Senator McConnell and Senator Schumer, for their discussions. I thank the Vice President for his presence here today. In my own view, government shutdowns ought not to be a part of…

I would agree with that. And we could get into a lively dispute among us about who shot John and who scratched whose back and whose fault it all is, whether the Democrats, who in 2003 began for the first time to require 60 votes for…

before the Senator from Maine speaks, I thank the Senator from Ohio for his generous comments. I defer to the Senator from Maine.

in 1976, it was not a particularly good time in the Republican Party. Watergate had decimated the Republican Party in 1974, and the hangover still existed in 1976. But one good thing that happened was the election of Orrin Hatch from Utah…

Prior to doing that, I want to join Senator Portman in acknowledging the leadership of Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, along with the conservation community, in developing the bones of this bill. We had competing bills; he and Senator…

I thank the Senator from Maine and the Senator from Ohio. I often say to my constituents in Tennessee that they might look at Washington, DC, as if it were a split-screen television. On one side, for example, we had in September all the…

I thank my colleagues. I will conclude the colloquy, if that is all right with Senator King and Senator Portman, and then I ask unanimous consent for 10 minutes to speak about Senator Hatch. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

along with my colleague, the ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Senator Murray, I wish to pay tribute to Carolyn Bolden, a nondesignated employee on the HELP Committee staff. Ms. Bolden is retiring at…

today I am asking experts at the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings Institute, as well as other leading experts, for specific ideas about how Congress and the President can work together to reduce the cost of healthcare in the…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 30 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

let me begin where the majority leader stopped. It is a true story about the tunnels. Senator Corker was curious about smuggling supplies from Egypt to Gaza. Others of us might have asked somebody about that--not Bob Corker. He hailed a…

there is uncertainty reported in the news about the trade agreements and discussions that the President of the United States and the President of China had last weekend, but one thing is certain: The agreement that President Trump and the…

I am delighted to hear the Senator from Delaware discuss some aspects of President Bush's time that aren't as well remembered, including his amendments to the Clean Air Act, on which the Senator from Delaware and I have worked. In June of…

within a few minutes, the Senate will vote on ending debate on the nomination of Stephen Vaden to be the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I am glad to see that. I am here to strongly support Mr. Vaden and urge my…

I have come to the floor for three different reasons. Out of courtesy to the Democratic leader, who I see coming in, I will wait until he is here.