Madam President, I ask for 1 additional minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Mr. President, let me thank Senator Blumenthal for being such a great partner. He and I have traveled a very long journey together since September of 2012 when we both stood together at the firehouse in Sandy Hook, CT. We have become…

Madam President, I am here on the floor this afternoon to talk about a young man named Billy Smolinski and a law that Senator Hoeven and I are introducing on behalf of him, his family, and, quite literally, the millions of other families…

Madam President, over the course of the summer we have watched with horror as thousands more have died in Syria and Iraq, and the debate over what we should do about it has been omnipresent here in the Senate and in the House. We have held…

I say to Senator Durbin, I come from Connecticut, one of the Thirteen Original Colonies. We are proud of our role as part of the foundation, the fabric of America, and our State's motto is ``He who transplants sustains.'' This Nation's…

Mr. President, I am back to the floor a second time to speak very briefly in favor of the nuclear agreement with Iran. I don't clearly understand why we are here again. When I was sworn into the House, I remember that one of the things…

Mr. President, I come to the floor to speak to the nuclear agreement with Iran. First, having just come back from the region after having spent Sunday morning in one of the biggest refugee camps inside Syria--where 80,000, more than half…

Mr. President, one thing we all agree on is that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. That has been the foundation of American policy. For a long time, it has been at the root of these negotiations. That has been our guidepost as a body…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for my State Department fellow, Tovan McDaniel, to be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this work period. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

Mr. President, later this week we are going to have our first Republican Presidential debate, the official one that is on TV, and a lot of people are going to be watching. There has been a lot of speculation as to who is going to be in the…

Mr. President, I thank my great friends Senator Booker and Senator Bennet for their passionate and moving remarks about the task ahead of us, to make sure that as we reauthorize No Child Left Behind, as we reorder our priorities, that we…

All this amendment says is that just simply on a State by State basis, identify your achievement gap and then come up with a plan to fix it--no Federal intervention, no Federal prescription of how you fix the problem. It is a big, big…