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

Madam President, I oppose the Feingold amendment. Section 1019 of the Feingold amendment specifically requires the President, by December 31, 2010, to submit a timetable for the completion of redeployment of our troops out of Afghanistan…

Madam President, I yield myself 10 seconds to read the amendment: Not later than December 31, 2010, the President shall submit to Congress a report, together with a timetable for the completion of that redeployment. Completion of that…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to be yielded 3 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, earlier this month, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the threat posed by the ability of terrorists to purchase firearms in America and legislative proposals to address that…

Mr. President, a year and a half ago, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a review of the causes of the financial crisis. The subcommittee, which I chair, sought to answer a fundamental question about a crisis that was, at…

Mr. President, among the most difficult issues we dealt with in the debate over the Wall Street reform bill we approved last week is that of proprietary trading and conflicts of interest in the financial system. This trading, often…

I thank the Leader. I intended that when I said ``on this side'' there would be alternates. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The request is so modified. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Maryland is recognized.

Mr. President, first of all, I thank Senator Merkley for his extraordinary work on this amendment of ours. We are very hopeful we are going to be able to get to a vote. As it stands right now, we are going to get to a vote because we are…

I ask unanimous consent that the speakers on this side be in the following order: Senator Cardin be recognized for 5 minutes; then the Senator from Oregon, Mr. Merkley, be recognized for 10 minutes; then that I be recognize for 10 minutes…

Mr. President, under the current unanimous consent agreement, there will be 10 minutes now for Senator Merkley, then to be alternated to the Republican side. Actually, it would go first to the Republican side, then back to Senator Merkley…

Mr. President, I would support the Feinstein amendment No. 4113 to close the London loophole. Senator Feinstein and I and other colleagues have been working together for years to put a cop back on the beat in U.S. commodity markets, and it…