Senator Coons, thank you for convening us. I think it is important to restate the progress we have made. I know it has been said before, but frankly not enough attention has been paid to the fact that since implementation day Iran has…

Madam President, today I have come to the floor to speak very briefly about a resolution that the majority leader introduced, I believe, yesterday. This is an authorization for military force that apparently purports to give the President…

Madam President, let me thank my friend from Ohio for his very constructive remarks on the success of CO-OPs. We have a CO-OP in Connecticut that has been providing very good quality care at very reasonable rates. It is part of what helps…

I thank Senator Shaheen for the question. I would hope that regardless of how any individual Senator voted on this deal, we would all be rooting for its success because success in the end is an assurance that Iran never obtains a nuclear…

I said that Holgate was August 5, and Shannon was September 18. Adam Szubin has been before the banking committee since April 16. He is a few months away from being before the Senate for almost a full year in a job that we can all agree is…

Madam President, next week we will mark the 3-year anniversary, for lack of a better word, of the massacre at Sandy Hook, CT. Senator Blumenthal will be joining me on the floor momentarily. I wanted to come to the floor to speak to our…

Mr. President, I come to the floor today to congratulate my colleagues on passage of the repeal and replacement of No Child Left Behind, the Every Child Succeeds Act. In particular, I want to thank Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member…

Thank you, Mr. President. The Senator is correct that last week Senate Democrats thought that it was more important to talk about terrorism than it was to talk about the repeal of the Affordable Care Act for the 16th time in the U.S…

Mr. President, reserving the right to object, it is my understanding that this substitute would require the Federal Government to go to court in order to stop someone on the terrorist watch list from purchasing a weapon. As a default, we…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 551 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration; I further ask that the bill be read a third time and passed and…

Mr. President, I am here to join my colleagues in our call to bring for debate and vote on the Senate floor a measure that is supported, I would argue, by probably 95 to 99 percent of my constituents, and that is the simple idea that if…

Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 2918. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Murphy] proposes an amendment numbered 2918 to amendment No. 2916.