I've spoken with you several times about the importance of Federal support for programs that help reduce violence and create economic opportunity.

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays…

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Booker) and the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was…

Since we have a minute here, and Senator Shelby has opened this door about new technology, could you comment on the hypersonic--use of hypersonic vehicles and other craft, and whether that is the future or whether we have defenses we are…

last Friday, America lost a good and gracious person, a statesman, and many of us in the Senate lost a personal friend. Senator Daniel Akaka was as kind and decent a man as you would ever meet in life. For 3\1/2\ decades, Danny Akaka…

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lankford). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 96, nays 2, as follows…

I hope you will fill me in on how that is consistent with protecting privacy.

Would you be open to the idea that someone having reached adult age having grown up with Messenger Kids should be allowed to delete the data you have collected?

I think everyone should have control over how their information is used.

Excuse me. As a lawyer, I picked up on that word 'in general,' that phrase 'in general.' It seems to suggest that in some circumstances it will be shared with third parties.

What guarantees can you give us that no data from Messenger Kids is or will be collected or shared with those that might violate that law?

I think that may be what this is all about, your right to privacy, the limits of your right to privacy...

it has been nearly 4 years since the collapse of Corinthian Colleges and almost 2 years since the collapse of ITT Tech, two of the largest college collapses in U.S. history. These infamous companies left tens of thousands of students in…

this past Saturday was St. Patrick's Day. The city of Chicago celebrated, as it has every St. Patrick's Day since 1962, by dyeing the Chicago River a deep emerald green. In the Windy City and in cities and towns throughout Illinois, across…

we are in the process of considering an omnibus budget bill. It is over 2,000 pages long. In fairness, it includes many provisions of legislation that has been worked on by many of us for months, so it isn't a surprise package, by and…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. DACA

I rise today, on this side of the aisle, to thank my friend Senator Cochran. Yesterday, I made a longer speech in the Congressional Record, but I didn't want this moment to go by without tributes from both sides of the aisle while you are…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for 3 additional minutes, if the Senator from Utah will give me that opportunity. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I use the term loosely, but last Saturday, the 17th of March, was one of the high holy days in Chicago-- St. Patrick's Day. They color the Chicago River green. Everybody wears green. There are great parades, great celebrations. I look…

Let me close by saying, on March 24, students and Americans of all ages will march in the streets to honor those who have been lost to senseless gun violence and to call on their elected representatives to step up. I support the marchers…

Reserving the right to object, Mr. President, I thank the Senator from North Carolina, and I believe he does have a genuine interest in this issue. I attended several of our meetings to discuss a bipartisan compromise, and I hope we can…

last week Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York passed away after representing the Rochester area of that State for more than three decades. She was tough, unfailingly gracious, and wonderfully effective in helping people throughout…

this crisis we face in this country involving DACA is a crisis that was created when President Trump announced the end of the program on September 5 of last year and gave us a deadline of March 5 of this year to come up with an…

back in 1985, I was a second-term Member of the House of Representatives and a member, I was proud to say, of the House Appropriations Committee. The Committee chairman was a man by the name of Jamie Whitten. He was from the State of…

millions of men, women, and children across the world are victims of human trafficking. But it is not a problem that stops at our shores. Eight years ago, I held a hearing in the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law entitled, ``In Our…