I yield the time between now and 4:00 to the Senator from Oklahoma. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I support the provisions in this bill relating to the Guantanamo detention facility, or Gitmo, and oppose the amendment to strike those provisions and to reinstate existing restrictions on the transfer of Gitmo detainees. Gitmo is…

how much time remains on our side? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is 4 minutes 15 seconds.

I ask unanimous consent for 15 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

this amendment is a Levin-McCain- Feinstein-Udall amendment. It clarifies that Gitmo detainees would not gain any additional legal rights as a result of their transfer to the United States for detention. Any Gitmo detainee who is…

I understand the situation is as follows: that the time between now and 4 o'clock is under majority control, and then between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock we have not resolved that issue as to who would control time; am I correct? The PRESIDING…

I yield 15 minutes to the senior Senator from California. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from California.

I ask unanimous consent that Alec Johnson, a legislative fellow detailed to the Committee on Appropriations, be granted floor privileges for the duration of the consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014…

I yield an additional 2 minutes to the time of the Senator from California.

I yield 5 minutes to the Senator from Colorado. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I call up amendment No. 2175. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Michigan [Mr. Levin], for himself and Mr. McCain, proposes an amendment numbered 2175. The amendment is as…

The majority leader has said we have to finish this bill this week. If we can't make progress on amendments that we agree should be called up and are important amendments--one coming basically from each side, even though there will…

the Senate is poised to pass legislation aimed at strengthening the safety of compounded pharmaceuticals and the security of the drug supply chain. It has been more than 1 year since the public became aware of what quickly became a far…

I thank the Senator from Oklahoma, my ranking member, the ranking member on Armed Services, because I know how much he wants to get to this bill. I do not understand the objection that I know is not his personally but comes from his side…

The Republicans are on a mission of destruction. Nothing will satisfy them except that very mission. The Upton bill is another weapon in that mission. What the Republicans fear most of all is that health care reform will eventually work…

this Nation began not as merely a plot of land, or as a group of people united by language or ethnicity. It began with an idea: ``That all men are created equal.'' Our story since Thomas Jefferson wrote those words has been a story of…

Sequestration is a horrible business model.

We need to reach a bipartisan agreement, pass a budget, and get back on track.

I'm frustrated that this committee's once again asked you to come up here and testify about the harm caused by sequestration.

They're tired of Congress' unwillingness to compromise and solve the problem.

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 very much support the nomination of Alan Estevez to be Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Mr. Estevez is a career civil servant who has served under Presidents of both political parties…

on behalf of Senator Menendez, I ask unanimous consent that Christopher Landberg, a detailee from the State Department and the Foreign Relations Committee, be granted floor privileges for the consideration of the nomination of Jacob Lew…

It is now my pleasure to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda).

Just a short time ago, a number of us joined many others in paying tribute to Speaker Tom Foley. There was a commemoration ceremony just 100 feet or so from here. There was a lot of discussion, appropriately, of the need for…