I wish to commemorate a Georgia first responder, public servant and leader, Chief Henry Lee Fields, who passed away on December 28, 2014. <bullet> Chief Fields was born to Eddie Lee and Dorothea Johnson Fields on July 13, 1944, in…

I have deep respect for the Senator from Massachusetts, but I want to take issue with the premise of her last question.

I find it tragically ironic that on the same day the Islamic State tragically took the life and murdered a Jordanian pilot that the U.S. Senate failed to get a 60-vote majority to move to a motion to proceed to debate the most important…

I think that's the important thing. If this is a legitimate debate for Ms. Warren and I to have, and the other members of the Senate, it ought to be on the floor of the U.S. Senate in a piece of legislation.

congressional intent ought to be determined on the floor of the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House, not in some office building down the street on Connecticut Avenue.

We found incremental is acceptable as long as when they violate an increment, they have a punishment for it.

I know we are close to a vote on the Clay Hunt suicide prevention bill. As chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, who has just left the Veterans' Administration this morning after a 3-hour meeting with employees, I want to tell all…

I ask for a vote to be called, and I ask that it be a rollcall vote on the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a…

And we want to acknowledge to the President our appreciation that he signed the Clay Hunt Veterans Suicide Prevention bill yesterday.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on February 3, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on Finance

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on February 3, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Internal…

Long-term entitlement reform is really one of the keys to getting the macro problem solved.