Cord Byrd: “I see my friend, my bosom friend from Alabama, on the floor. I am told that he is going to speak at this point. I yield…”

I thank Senator Webb, Senator Warner, and Senator Hagel for their leadership on this extremely critical issue of providing education benefits to our veterans. I am a cosponsor of their legislation and was happy to include it in the…

with great pleasure I congratulate the senior Senator from Hawaii, Mr. Daniel Inouye, for becoming the second longest-serving Senator in history. He achieved this distinction last Friday when he became only the second person to have served…

Florida is committed to ensuring that all eligible Floridians who want to vote have the opportunity to do so.

the State of West Virginia and the Nation's coal industry lost a very good man last week, and I lost a good friend. Mr. Stephen Young, a native of Buckhannon, WV, who had been the vice president of government affairs at Consol Energy for…