Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. S. 140

Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the October 10, 2018, vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 640, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General. I would have voted no. Mr…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to allow Coast Guard details Catherine Carabine and Sean Stewart to have the privilege of the Senate floor during consideration of the Coast Guard bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

It's a move of desperation, because he's going to lose.

But the only good news is that the weather ended up being beautiful. No rain, clear skies. So as long as FEMA can get the blue tarps in, so that people can patch their roofs and most every roof has a leak or a hole, then they can secure…

It is the worst destruction that the panhandle has seen for however long that I've been living. It's akin, Anderson, to Hurricane Andrew back in 1992, south of Miami, where everything was leveled.

In Mexico Beach specifically, the answer is no. There's not going to be there. They basically had to evacuate although I talked to a fellow who rode out the storm on a second floor and his windows did not break.

I want to say kudos to you because the assets that we have authorized in this committee, an overhead for NOAA, as well as the second airplane that flies at 40 to 45,000 feet which has dramatically improved the National Hurricane Center's…

Hurricane Michael is bee-lining toward the Florida Panhandle and already making its presence felt.

I just want to say that this is a big one. When you get above 100 miles an hour, the destructive force goes up exponentially.

Mr. Chairman, again, under your leadership in this committee, I will be retuning to the panhandle of Florida.