the bill before us today, the Great American Outdoors Act, is landmark legislation. It would fulfill a longstanding promise to the American people to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund. This measure will also make a…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. H.R. 1957

I rise to talk about the Securing America's Clean Fuels Infrastructure Act, which I am introducing today with my good friend, the senior Senator from Tennessee. Our legislation would improve and expand the existing Alternative Fuel Vehicle…

before the Senator from Oklahoma leaves the floor, may I ask a question of him?

I rise today following Senator Lankford. I want to say a thing or two about Senator Lankford, who is good friend, good colleague. We sit together in committee. In fact, he succeeded Tom Coburn in the U.S. Senate. When Tom Coburn was…

Tom Cotton. One of the TCs. We lost a really good TC, Tom Coburn, whom Senator Lankford knows passed away about a month and a half ago. It was a great loss to our country, to his State, and someone whom we will always celebrate here and…

My staff was nice enough to put this at the end of this statement. I would get in trouble if I don't include it. Once again, to Cesarina and all of her coworkers at Westside Family Healthcare, as well as the many healthcare workers in…

To my colleague James Lankford, who keeps a tab on his colleagues, do you know if any of our colleagues today is celebrating a birthday?

before our colleague and friend from Missouri leaves the floor, I want to thank him for a very thoughtful presentation. I want to thank him for that and for his leadership. I know he has other places to go. I am glad I was here to hear…

I have come today to talk about a couple of bills that the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works reported out today unanimously that would vastly improve our Nation's water infrastructure. What does infrastructure include? It…

I rise today to speak on behalf of the nomination of Robert Feitel to serve as inspector general of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the safety and security of almost 100 nuclear powerplants throughout this country--an…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Without objection, it is so ordered.

It might be the case, but I would have to see those numbers. My secretary of labor said he thought that the number that we were looking at here was something like $13 an hour in Delaware, when you add it all in, as opposed to 24. So we…

I thank the Senator very much. I will go back and will reengage with our secretary and make sure we have the math right. The other point that he made--I asked him: How hard would it be to administer? Is it something we could stand up in a…

I will just finish my thought, and then I would be happy to. But in a timely way. And I am just concerned--my second concern, along with my first concern: I am just concerned that the idea to deal with this in a timely way is going to be…

Excuse me. There you go. But if you add the numbers, I am not sure we end up with $24 per hour in Delaware.

I would be happy to discuss that with you and better understand what you offer. I wasn't here when you spoke. Thank you. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

replying to my colleagues, I think the Senators from Nebraska and South Carolina know that I have great affection and respect for them--and I have from the day they got here. I used to be a State treasurer. I was elected at the tender age…

I would say to my colleague, my West Virginia colleague and friend: Don't lose that sense of optimism. It is going to carry us through this and, hopefully, well beyond. I live in Delaware. My wife and I live in Delaware. We live in the…

I rise this evening to discuss the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which is oftentimes referred to as the ``Magna Carta'' of environmental laws. When I think about our Nation's most illustrious documents, I am reminded of the…

I commend the Senator from Louisiana for his leadership and for his courage in not just helping to develop this proposal that we have offered in a legislative forum but in trying to make sure that it gets the debate it needs and the vote…

I ask unanimous consent that Gary Jonesi and Kristin Butler, two legislative fellows on my staff, be granted privileges of the floor for the duration of the 116th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Thank you, Madam President, and I thank the Senator for yielding to me. Madam President, former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was blessed with many wonderful staff members over the years, and one of them was John DiEleuterio. I…

our Presiding Officer, if I am not mistaken, is a veteran himself--I want to say Army. Navy salutes Army. Different uniform, same team. I want to express my thanks to Senator Whitehouse for his comments relating to the Vietnam war. I stand…

233 years ago, our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia, just a few miles north of us in Delaware. Eleven years earlier, we had declared our independence from the British Crown, the most powerful empire in the world. Despite long…