I commend the chairman and ranking member for many, many things. I want to say to the ranking member, Senator Mikulski, that we are going to miss her upon her retirement. As one who is near and dear to our Nation's space program, both…

And the Senator no doubt but unfortunately agrees, along with the rest of us about what happened in Orlando, that these are not weapons for hunting; these are weapons for killing. And this particular weapon has a collapsible stock. Would…

I want to thank the leaders of our Armed Services Committee for working out what had been a difficult situation going forward with regard to assured access to space over a 6-year period starting in fiscal year 2017 and going through fiscal…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To improve the amendment) On page 1, between lines 3…

I call up amendment No. 4670. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Florida [Mr. Nelson] proposes an amendment numbered 4670 to amendment No. 4607.

If the Senator will yield, I just wish to thank him for his comments. Indeed, some folks wish that I were still in orbit, and I understand that. I want the Senator to know that I have great affection and great respect for the chairman of…

I have just returned from the command center of the emergency operations center, a temporary one that has been set up in the middle of South Orange Avenue, very close to the Pulse nightclub, not far from the hospital where so many of the…

my distinguished colleague from North Carolina, Mr. Tillis, is correct. Chairman Thune and I did agree to accept this amendment as part of a package of 26 amendments agreed to by all but one of our colleagues. While I am disappointed that…

I am going to try to make sense out of some of the discussion that has been going on, which has been quite detailed and very esoteric, with regard to the Russian rocket engine which is the main engine in the tail of the Atlas V rocket--the…

I would say to my friend from Missouri simply that the administration does not say that they don't need this. As a matter of fact, in their $1.9 billion request, they have asked for the replenishment of this, and the statements that I just…

do I have any time left? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Twenty-nine seconds.

this is a motion to instruct the conferees that whatever is decided in the conference to fund the Zika crisis, the money would not be taken out of the Ebola fund and that the money that has been borrowed from the Ebola fund would be…