We urge these committees to encourage joint VA-DOD efforts, but ask you to exercise close oversight to ensure such arrangements are implemented properly.

It's high time we act.

Mr. President, I congratulate my colleague from Florida, and I want him to know that it is a great pleasure for me to serve with him. It has been a tradition in Florida that the two Senators get along. This has been a great tradition that…

The Navy of continuing to mischaracterize a 2009 report by the National Academy of the Sciences' National Research Council.

We try to take politics out of the selection of our judges by impaneling a judicial nominating commission.

It is nice when you have a nominee up for confirmation before the Senate like Leon Panetta.

When Sen. Nelson's office contacted them in my behalf, I did receive the BOA Loan Modification packet in recognizable fed ex.

Madam President, we have all heard the phrase ``drill, baby, drill.'' Well, it is interesting that the pro-oil company folks think that all of our answers have to do with drilling because, lo and behold, we have actually increased our…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 26, 2011, at 10:15 a.m. in SH-216. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 26, 2011, at 10 a.m., in SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct an executive…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Indian Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on May 26, 2011, at 2:15 p.m. in Room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing…