Tom Harkin: “We thank you for providing $66 million in your fiscal year 2009 Conference Bill.”

I particularly appreciate that the students from Westwood, which closed in 2016, finally have been granted relief.

We do think that the decisions about what is safe should be made by science and not by politics.

I ask unanimous consent that Leela Baggett, Vincent Brown, and Naomi Pitkin, interns with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of today's session. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I thank my dear friend and colleague, long-standing in the Senate and in the House before, and to thank the Senator for her intellectual and energetic leadership on all issues concerning the environment and the health of our people and the…