I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Subcommittee on Health…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Examining the State of Small…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on Banking…

last week the House of Representatives voted for the 53rd time to repeal or undermine all of--or aspects of-- the Affordable Care Act. This is beginning to sound like a broken record. I was in the House of Representatives for a period of…

They are on the verge of becoming the world's first autonomous terrorist state if they are successful.

The world today is more complicated, more dangerous than at any time during our lifetimes.

I hope that is not a reality that we are prepared to accept.

The Middle East seems largely immune from U.S. efforts to bend it to our will.

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Health Care of the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 2:45 p.m., in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 10 a.m., in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., in room SH-216 of the Hart Senate Office Building, to conduct a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on September 16, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., in room SR-253 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from New Hampshire.

Reserving the right to object, the Senate has heard the reasons for these objections before, but the fact is that staff and Senators are covered by the exact same plan that is offered under the exchange to millions of Americans. It works…

Outcomes are getting better, and for that reason, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard.

I haven't watched the gruesome videos of the beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and I have no plans to do so. I don't think I need to do so in order to understand the brutality of ISIS and the threat this radical movement poses…

The oath that we all take to serve is a very serious one.

I will withdraw my request for modification. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Wyoming. Health Care

I thank the Senator. I appreciate the amount of time the Senator has taken to educate my colleagues on Connecticut's success in adding 200,000 people to the rolls of the insured. But the chart the Senator just had up next to him for the…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Affordable Care Act

before I speak on the topic of Affordable Care Act, reports are emerging that the House of Representatives is going to adjourn without taking any votes on a border supplemental that would allow this country to humanely deal with a crisis…

I would ask that the Senator modify his request to allow Senator Bennet to alternate with one of the Republican speakers in this series of remarks.

There are two fights here... to make sure that we have policies that give access to all employees for paid family leave.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for letting me go over.

Thank you very much, Madam President. I know we have a number of colleagues who still want to speak, and we want to get to votes tonight, so I want to be very brief speaking in opposition to the Lee amendment and in support of the…