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Cory Gardner is a former Republican U.S. Senator from Colorado, serving from 2015 to 2021. He was the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in Colorado since 2002. During his tenure, Gardner focused on issues such as energy policy, healthcare, and national security. He was known for his efforts to promote renewable energy and for his work on legislation related to nuclear weapons and defense. Gardner lost his re-election bid in 2020 to Democrat John Hickenlooper and has since stepped away from active political office.
there are few things that I enjoy more than bragging about my hometown. I live in a little town called Yuma, CO, out in the Eastern Plains. It is a town of about 3,500 people. If maybe you overexaggerate a little bit, it reaches 4,000. It…
If the Senator would yield, what the EPA has stated is admitting fault, admitting and promising that they would pay for those who were injured, and then just weeks ago, as the previous administration was ending, they denied every single…
To the Senator from Illinois, the EPA admits they caused this spill. Does the Senator from Illinois realize that the EPA then failed to live up to that promise?
To the Senator from Illinois, the EPA stated that they caused this spill. Dozens upon dozens of individuals and businesses filed a claim against the EPA for damages caused by a spill that the EPA admits. Scott Pruitt has said that he will…
I thank my colleague from the great State of Montana. During the debate on the floor just a while ago, we heard more debate on something that is very near and dear to my heart; that is, the matter of the Gold King Mine and the EPA's…
I want to thank Senator Thune for his work on the SCREEN FAST Act to include it in the FAA bill.
I have a letter that we'll be sending later today expressing our willingness and desire to push the TSA on making sure we increase efficiency.
I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m., Thursday, February 16; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…
if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that following the remarks of Senators Schatz, Whitehouse, and Hirono, the Senate resume morning business and then stand adjourned under the previous order…
I'd also like to extend a special thanks to Senator Gardner for attending that Summit and learning with us.
Today, I sent a letter to President Trump, with a number of colleagues in this committee--Senators Young, Portman, and others on the Defense Committee and the Intel Committee--to suggest a sensible policy path for the administration to…
I now ask for a second reading and, in order to place the bill on the calendar under provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the bill will be read for the second time on the…
I further ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…
I further ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…
I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 11 a.m., Thursday, February 2; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved to…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 40, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A…
I ask unanimous consent that not withstanding the resolution of the Senate of January 24, 1901, the traditional reading of Washington's Farewell Address take place on Monday, February 27, 2017, at a time to be determined by the majority…
I understand an appointment was made during the adjournment of the Senate, and I ask it be stated for the Record. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair, on behalf of the Vice President, pursuant to the provisions of 20 U.S.C., sections 42 and…
as I stated repeatedly before the Presidential election of this past year, we stood, and continue to stand, at a very pivotal time in our Nation's history. After 8 years of using the judicial and regulatory systems to push through its…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 41, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A…
I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 274) to nullify the effect of the…
If we are faced--and we will be faced--with increasing the debt limit of this country again, then in order to increase that debt limit, shouldn't we then face and shouldn't we put in place some kind of a mechanism to spur economic growth…
we need to make sure that international norms are set on standards that we believe are best for the world and economic opportunity.
I come to the floor today to discuss the continued broken promises of ObamaCare--the Affordable Care Act--that passed in the most partisan of fashions several years ago, and to discuss the process by which we are putting together a…
Our actions toward North Korea depend greatly on South Korea, Japan, our relationship with those two nations.
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