And what rule is that that governs that? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is advised that we are in a rollcall vote.

Well, you allowed another parliamentary inquiry. Why wouldn't you allow my parliamentary inquiry? All I want to know is how many minutes we have gone over the vote. I hear it is 11 minutes, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…

I say to my colleagues that when you put a price on carbon, it works. If you look at my State, we are creating jobs in clean energy. We are balancing our budget better than we ever have before. We have strong support from the people of…

The sufferance of the Chair? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sufferance of the Senate.

And if you believe we should be treated like everyone else in the country, vote no. That is how I am voting.

I will just take 20 seconds and yield the rest. I hope we all vote for this because it doesn't do anything to cause disarray in negotiations. What it says is if there is a deal and there is a breakout and it is certified that there is a…

there are two ways to repeal landmark environmental law. One is through the front door, and the amendment would say we abandon the Endangered Species Act. It is gone. And one way is through the back door. This is through the back door. If…

Well, the Senate is definitely suffering. But, in any event, we are 11 minutes over. Let's bang the gavel. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 49, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Leg.] YEAS--51 Barrasso Blunt Boozman Burr Capito…

I want to thank my colleague and friend from Oklahoma, and I also want to thank the ranking member of the Committee on Finance for being here because he is so right, we have to work together. On the EPW Committee, we know how critical this…

I thank the Senator. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.

I am so grateful to Senator Sanders because he explains things like no one else. He takes it down to the average working family in America. That is really who we are here to protect, not the super top rich people. They are doing fine…

In a 2-year period--the wealthiest of the wealthiest, 14 people--that wealth rose $157 billion. Yet when we look at this Republican budget, those people get every benefit we can imagine. They are not asked to do a thing--a thing. When…