I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I hope that you understand that this lifetime appointment gives you an opportunity to serve our Nation, but also to serve the people who come before you.

I ask for permission to complete my remarks before the recess. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I am urging my Republican colleagues. We have received 12 blue slips so far. I think we could do better.

I believe in capitalism, and to have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition.

I want to thank Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa for his service as Ranking Committee Member in the last Congress.

I look forward to working with him again and all the Members of the Committee during the next 2 years.

We need to make sure we have competition to bring prices down and bring innovation in and stop the fiascos.

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 41 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives…

Thank her Ranking Member, Senator Mike Lee of Utah.

So they used their power of the marketplace to diminish the number of acts at that venue, and the venue decided they had to go back to Ticketmaster?

I believe in capitalism, and to have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition.

Thank her Ranking Member, Senator Mike Lee of Utah.

The biggest investment in the arts in the history of America.

We need to make sure we have competition to bring prices down and bring innovation in and stop the fiascos.

I would like to welcome the new Ranking Member, my friend, Senator Lindsey Graham.

The threat is real. It has been documented. It happens across many venues.

I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. King) and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.

I would like to thank Senator Klobuchar, who has brought competition policy to the forefront of our national conversation.

I want to thank Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa for his service as Ranking Committee Member in the last Congress.

I want to begin by welcoming our newest Senator from the State of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts. I don't know him well, but I am sure I will come to know him. I certainly know his family. They have made their impression on the city of Chicago by…

I believe in capitalism, and to have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition.

So they used their power of the marketplace to diminish the number of acts at that venue, and the venue decided they had to go back to Ticketmaster?

We passed a key bill that Senator Lee has been advocating for on venue with the tech companies.

the logic of title 42 is a public health response to a crisis. It was determined that foreigners coming into the United States could be turned away under title 42, and more than a million were last year. Now, what has happened to the…