I thank the Chair. Madam President, I rise in opposition to the amendment of Senator Paul, No. 365. This amendment would effectively wipe out a critical tool used against terrorists and drug traffickers. I want to explain exactly what…

for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…

I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has scheduled a hearing entitled, ``Stimulus…

the subsidies to oil and gas companies in the form of tax breaks cost the Federal Government in the neighborhood of $4 billion a year. What most Democrats, including this Democrat, propose to do is to end those subsidies and to use the…

Senator McCain and I are today introducing, by request, the Obama administration's proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. As is the case with any bill that is introduced by request, we introduce this bill for the…

It is now my pleasure to yield the balance of my time to a very distinguished member of our committee, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley). (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I yield myself 2 minutes. We here need to talk straight to the American people. This bill does not codify the Hyde amendment. It goes well beyond it. We don't need to codify the Hyde amendment. It's the law of the land. The purpose of this…

I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to another member of the Ways and Means Committee, the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).

each year we commemorate Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. April 24 came during our recess this year and marked the 96th anniversary of the date in 1915 when Turkish Ottoman authorities ordered the rounding up and detention of hundreds of…

We've heard your last prayer, Father Dan. We wish you the best. You have served us very well. Mr. Speaker, I was on the floor last night, and I heard the debate. Clearly, there is a massive misinformation mission on the part of the…

We do not need to tear up what America has built in the past in order to build for the future. We should not confront present and future problems, including the Nation's deficit, as we must, by repealing America's past. The Republican…

I have been fighting over the past several years to stop the thousands of trash shipments entering into Michigan from Canada. This year brought some welcome good news: Canada has stopped shipping its city trash to Michigan, eliminating…

there is no doubt that we must take action to reduce our budget deficit. The question is, How will we accomplish this? Will we do as we have done all too often over the last few years, and protect the tax cuts of the well-to-do at the…

there are various proposals before us that would impact efforts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change. While I have concerns regarding EPA's regulatory…

today a bipartisan group of Senators has introduced legislation that would allow the Senate to continue its leadership of our country toward a clean-energy future. Senators Schumer, Alexander, Kerry, Murkowski, Bingaman, and I have…

I rise to oppose the Paul amendment on the President's constitutional authority to order the use of military force. This amendment is flawed because it doesn't allow the President to respond militarily to a completed attack and only allows…

today we vote on a bill that would repeal the 1099 reporting expansion that was made into law under the Affordable Care Act. This reporting requirement was designed to improve tax compliance. However, many businesses fear this expansion…

on March 2, we voted on a short-term continuing resolution. We vote today on another. I opposed the earlier measure, and for the same reasons, I oppose this one as well. First, this legislation makes unjustified cuts in important Federal…

the Senate is poised to approve a concurrent resolution providing for the acceptance of a statue of President Gerald R. Ford to be placed in the Capitol. I am proud as a Michiganian, and proud as an American, to support this resolution. In…

It was a victory for the American people when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to reject the spending bill sent to us by the House. House Republicans who tell us they want to reduce the deficit have proposed a cure that does little to cure…

the badly misguided budget cuts contained in the legislation the House has sent to us threaten to strangle our fragile economic recovery before it can truly begin. The House bill would weaken the social safety net that helps keep our…

I thank my colleagues, Senator Leahy, who is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Grassley, who is the ranking Republican, for including in the Patent Reform Act a provision that a number of us have been working on for…

It is such a misstatement for someone to come here and say 'even if they did not qualify.' That is not correct. They qualified. So don't come here and say they didn't qualify. Essentially what you're saying is middle income taxpayers came…

There has been a reference here to taxpayers who did not honestly report their income. I must say that's an egregious misstatement. The way this works, or will work, is people will report their income honestly, and they do so based on…

I stand here to offer a better alternative. It's paid for. Instead of simply agreeing to the majority's bill, the motion to recommit would repeal the 1099 requirement and provide a new tax cut to the middle-class paid for by closing tax…