The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. Ayotte). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows…

Mr. President, as you know, there is a great deal of discussion going on right now in different forums on whether to increase our debt limit and, as a part of that, how we can reduce this government's spending practices so that we won't…

I note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coons). The clerk will call the roll.

Mr. President, I am going to talk about the basic underlying bill we are debating, not the amendment my colleagues have just been talking about. As a way of framing the discussion about this bill, I will cite some statistics that I think…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following letter be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, June 6, 2011. Hon. Eric H…

I do not remember any of them that had any greater acceptance within the bar and bench community than the nomination of Judge Zipps.

It is not always that our nominees receive unanimous well qualified, the highest commendation from the Bar Association.

Well, that is the A-plus answer on the law school exam and I appreciate it.

It is important, as he said, that we move these confirmations as quickly as possible because of the very, very large hole that the death of John Roll left in our court system in Tucson and the very large caseload that we have there.

I wanted to especially thank the Chairman of the full Committee, Senator Leahy, for adding to the witness list here Judge Zipps.

In the American League, a Yankee fan. My dream was for the Yankees and the D-backs to play in the World Series and the game to be decided in the seventh game for the D-backs to win.