I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 10, 2011, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Opportunities and Challenges for…

I hope colleagues will take a moment to look at this picture, because this is what we are talking about: exhaling toxic air, and little kids and members of our families who have to use this kind of inhaler. Exhale pollutants, inhale with…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 10, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

today I rise in memory of Dorothy Howell Rodham, a truly extraordinary woman who died last week at the age of 92. Many Americans knew Dorothy Rodham through her daughter, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who credits her mother…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 10, 2011, at 2:15 p.m., in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on November 10, 2011, at 10:00 a.m., in SH-216 of the Hart Senate Office Building, to conduct an executive business…

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 10, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Menendez go for 5 minutes and Senator Blunt for 10 minutes following that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from New Jersey is recognized.

first of all, I want to say a big thank- you to colleagues for voting to defeat the Paul joint resolution, which was a real attack on the health of our families. ____________________

what is before us now is supposed to be a jobs bill. Actually, all they do in this alternative, my Republican friends, is extend the highway trust fund at the current levels. That is something we intend to do, and Senator Inhofe and I are…

We have a very stark choice today. We have a small version of the jobs bill--this one focuses on infrastructure, mostly transportation investments--paid for by a seven-tenths-of-1-percent tax on people who earn over $1 million, and it…

I listened with interest to the Senator's explanation of the cross-air rule. I would just say he is off the mark, because if you produce deadly pollution in your State--deadly--you have an obligation to clean it up before it goes into…

I thank the Chair. Here is a quote from General Motors: General Motors company recognizes the benefit of the country continuing the historic national program to address fuel economy and greenhouse gases that the EPA began. That is signed…

Senate Resolution 216, sponsored by Senator Boxer, encouraging women's political participation in Saudi Arabia.

I am going to do everything I can as chairman of this new subcommittee because we have never had a subcommittee that dealt with the status of women before.

The leverage that we have here is the funding, and that is something that I feel we are going to have to look at--we just cannot turn our eye away from what is happening.

As you know, the Senate has taken a number of steps to support women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa.

I know one of the criticisms of CEDAW which I prefer to refer to as the women's rights amendment--human rights amendment.

this amendment is not about taking funds from beautification and putting them into bridges. As a matter of fact, what this amendment does is it prohibits any bridge that is a historic bridge from being fixed, and there are thousands of…

Parliamentary inquiry. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator will withhold. The Senator from California.

The empowerment of women is inextricably linked to the potential of nations to generate economic growth and sustainable democracy.

I am not going to give a blank check to some of these countries that are doing these things.

I want to make sure I will have a minute to respond against the amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. That is correct. There is 2 minutes evenly divided on this amendment. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as…

In Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, we can talk about some of the positive signs.

In Egypt, a new election plan was put forth that may result in very few seats for women.