Mark Pryor: “Scientific endeavors are not the kind of activity that we can put a bookmark in and come back when funding is flush.”

I ask unanimous consent that the Environment and Public Works Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 564 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the…

For the information of all Senators, if all debate time is used, there will be up to four rollcall votes in relation to the Defense authorization bill and the Saperstein nomination at 3 p.m. We hope to yield back some of the debate time…

I ask unanimous consent that the committee- reported amendment to the resolution be agreed to; the resolution, as amended, be agreed to; the committee-reported amendment to the preamble be agreed to; the preamble, as amended, be agreed to…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of H.R. 4030. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 4030) to designate the…