I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 18, 2013. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee on foreign relations

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 18, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on April 18, 2013, at 9:45 a.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I ask my colleagues to support this amendment. I yield the floor. PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.

This amendment, very simply, would ban high-capacity magazines of more than 10 rounds which are used to kill more people more quickly and, in fact, have been used in more than half the mass shootings since 1982. I ask my colleagues to…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices) At the…

we have listened to the families of Newtown talk about high-capacity magazines. Bill Sherlach, for example, who was the husband of Mary Sherlach--we have seen her picture here--had this to say about high-capacity magazines: It's just…

as we close this debate on this historic bill, I urge my colleagues to again heed and hear the families of Newtown. They are here talking about not only the horror and unspeakable and unimaginable tragedy that befell them on December 14…

on behalf of myself, my friend, and a great champion, Senator Frank Lautenberg with us today, and others, including my colleague Senator Christopher Murphy, I call up amendment No. 714. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the…

I am pleased to be working with her on some of these sexual assault initiatives, and thank her for her leadership.

I wish to begin by saying my thoughts and prayers, similar to those of so many Americans, are with Boston today, with the families and loved ones of those who have lost lives or been injured. I offer my deepest condolences to the families…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Connecticut.

Well, if I bring to your attention some of these issues, I hope that you will investigate them.

So we can count on your commitment that you will do hearings, workshops, meetings to investigate the impacts of GPOs on the health care marketplace, costs and competition?

Senator Ayotte and I have helped to spearhead efforts to improve that contracting law that will enable more effective prosecution of those kinds of corrupt contracts.

My impression over the years from my first visit, and I have been three times and asked these questions every time I visited, is that there have been more words than action from the Pakistanis, and the continuing rhetoric, as you refer to…

first, I commend and thank my colleague from Michigan, Senator Stabenow, for her leadership on an issue that is among the paramount questions for our time: whether we will meet our obligation to regard mental illness on a par with physical…

the solid effort that you have made to reinvigorate antitrust law enforcement to preserve competition and promote jobs

we are at a critical juncture with the consolidation that has taken place in many of our most important industries

I am very concerned with the contracts involving taxpayers' dollars of the United States that may go to companies that, in effect, benefit our enemy.

I thank the President for increasing the resources available to our veterans in a very difficult time, fiscally.

So you have no assurance right now from the Department of Defense as to when or whether it will go forward?

We are committed to it, and we await the Department of Defense's signaling to us that we have agreement here.

Unemployment among veterans is one of my major and paramount concerns.

The numbers are generally improving. We have month-to-month variations, but over time the unemployment rate for veterans overall has been below the national average for unemployment.