The 60-nation coalition that we lead has put ISIS on the verge of defeat in Iraq and Syria--and in Libya.

I think that retrospective review is part of good government, and I think that any President... should think that being good stewards of the rules we have on our books is part of good government and a healthy regulatory system.

I wish I could say something nice about your staffs, but I cannot do that too.

you oftentimes draw the short straw and have to preside while I am speaking, and you can probably give some of these talks as well as I can, but I am going to go back and talk about something I have discussed every couple of weeks--not so…

today we have made important progress on a piece of legislation that we refer to with another one of those funny sounding names. In this case, it is WRDA. It is spelled W-R-D-A. That stands for the Water Resources Development Act. The…

I like to tell the story about a Senate Finance Committee hearing about 2 years ago when we had a bunch of very smart people who came in to talk to us about this: What are we going to do about reducing the deficit? We continue to reduce…

I ask unanimous consent to speak, I suppose out of turn. I understand the Republicans, the majority, have control of the floor. I ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 minutes, since there are no other majority Senators. The PRESIDING…

the Affordable Care Act is working in their States, lowering the uninsured rate and improving their insurance marketplaces.

I think finding a way to get better competition and less regulation, I think, would free up and bring more carriers into the market.

my hope is that a lot of folks, including people in this room... will answer that call as well.

My Republican colleagues, several of them, have recently introduced legislation to roll back the individual mandate.

Let me just add a P.S. on Zika funding, which was discussed here earlier today. We had a bipartisan roundtable in the Homeland Security Committee on Zika funding not long ago. Two reasons we need to resolve this funding issue are, No. 1…

Medicaid expansion has been critical to lowering the cost of private insurance and improving the health of their residents.

That will be fine. I have absolutely no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the Senator from Tennessee. As he knows, I am a huge fan of his. I have been for a long time. I respect him as a colleague, I respected him as a Governor, and I respected him long before that when he was a principal aide to Howard…

Insurance does not work really well when you are only insuring the people who really need it.

It would devastate those pools, because you would have the healthy holding out until they got sick.

We had the longest markup in history on the Finance Committee.

That is what we used to say in the Navy.

We cannot forget them. I am not going to, and I do not think you want us to do that.

We need to bring down the cost of health care.

here in this Chamber and in this country of ours, we often talk about the dream of a college education. A college education opens doors, leads to a higher quality of life. A college education can boost our wages and our incomes. A college…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ITT Tech and the GI Bill

I wish to enter into a colloquy with the senior Senator from South Carolina in regards to the bipartisan efforts to extend the investment tax credits for advanced energy technologies. As you know, the investment tax credit incentives for…

for more than a year now, I have come again and again to the Senate floor to highlight some of the remarkable work that is being done by the men and women who work at the Department of Homeland Security for our country. The Department of…