Mr. President, before the Chair recognizes our friend from Alabama, let me thank the Senator from New Hampshire not just for her kind and warm remarks, but also for the great contribution she has made to our committee. It has been an…
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Mike Levin is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Levin has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and reproductive rights during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies that promote access to in vitro fertilization and has emphasized the importance of bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
If the Senator from Alabama, our friend, would yield for one second. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to call up the following amendments, the first four on behalf of Senator Jack Reed, Nos. 1146, 1147, 1148, and 1204; a fifth for Senator Reed, amendment No. 1294; No. 1293, a Levin amendment; No…
I don't know of an objection on this side. As far as I am concerned, if there is no further debate, the Presiding Officer can put the question. Mr. McCAIN. I ask the Chair to put it to a vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there is no further…
Mr. President, first, let me thank the Senator from New Hampshire for not only her comments about the committee work and myself and Senator McCain personally, but I want to tell her, and tell anyone within the sound of my voice, what a…
Madam President, I thank the Senator from Arizona. I very briefly described this amendment before, but I will take a few minutes now to describe it in some greater length because it is very significant. It is going to totally change the…
Let me thank my friend from Arizona for his great work on this bill and the way in which he and our members, our brothers and sisters on the committee, including the Presiding Officer, worked so well together on a bipartisan basis and the…
That is always our hope. It doesn't work out the way we wish frequently, but it is always our hope that the way it should work--at least theoretically--around here is that should be what the appropriators do. That has not worked out that…
These cuts that would result from sequestration are massive not just in defense but also in nondefense discretionary areas. The purpose of that threat is to hopefully prevent it from taking place, as with any other kind of a sword of…
I agree with my friend from Arizona. We literally worked months to get to the first reduction which was in our original bill. Then when the Congress adopted the Deficit Reduction Act, which required additional reductions, these are very…
Surely. Mr. McCAIN. Is it not also true that as the Senator mentioned, and I wish to emphasize, that Senator Whitehouse's Combating Counterfeiting Military Act is a part of this bill, so that would hopefully satisfy at least the Judiciary…
I thank the Presiding Officer, and I want to make one quick comment about this amendment. This is a bipartisan amendment that addresses the massive issue created by counterfeit parts getting into the defense supply system. It is something…





